94 results for: Furniture
RCA Television, 1949
This television set was assembled by Charles Rehkopf in 1949. He purchased the kit from Radio Products Sales in Seattle, Washington. He was the first to own a TV among his family and friends, and they often came over to watch programs.
ID Number:1989.9.1
Date:1949
Wooden nutcracker soldier from Frederick & Nelson, ca. 1980s
Frederick & Nelson, founded by Donald E. Frederick (1860-1937) and Nels B. Nelson (1854-1907) in 1891, was for many years Seattle's premier department store. They began by selling used furniture during the rebuilding of Seattle after the Great Fire of 1889, and expanded to include home delivery of goods, a tea room, and ready-to-wear men's and women's fashions. The holidays…
ID Number:1993.43.77
Date:Circa 1980
Maple desk top made by Henry Van Asselt, ca. 1860
European American settlers in the Puget Sound region made whatever household goods they couldn’t bring with them. Henry Van Asselt, one of the earliest homesteaders, was a talented carpenter. He made this desktop for early settler Thomas Mercer.
ID Number:1993.76.1
Date:Circa 1860
Table made by Henry Van Asselt for Thomas Mercer, ca. 1860s
Henry Van Asselt settled in the Seattle area in 1851, intending to make his living through agriculture. When his first homestead was burned in the Battle of Seattle of 1856, he left the area for the Willamette Valley of Oregon, where he polished his cabinet-making skills. He opened up a cabinet shop upon his return to Seattle, and his furniture…
ID Number:1993.76.2
Date:Circa 1860
Armchair, ca. 1910
This mission-style oak and leather chair was purchased at Ballard furniture store Mission Craft Products.
ID Number:1996.53.1
Date:1900-1930
Potty chair made from a Carnation milk crate, ca. 1910-1920
Necessity is the mother of invention so they say. This unique potty chair was handmade using a milk crate from the Carnation Milk Company. In 1889, Amos Eldridge Stuart founded the Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company in Kent, Washington. He changed the name to Carnation Evaporated Milk Company in 1901 and established a cow breeding farm in Tolt, Washington. The…
ID Number:1999.6.31
Date:Circa 1910-1920
Watchmaker's workbench and tools, ca. 1930
This workbench belonged to Aaron Yormark. He served a seven-year apprenticeship in the watchmaking trade in Perm located in the Ural mountains of Russia. With the turmoil in Russia at the end of WWI, he left his parents and siblings for Siberia to avoid conscription in the army. He met and married Anna Yavorsky in Vladivostock and they fled to…
ID Number:2001.83.1
Date:Circa 1930
Bubbleator Operator's chair from Century 21 Seattle World's Fair, ca. 1962
The Bubbleator was a bubble-shaped elevator featured in the World of Tomorrow exhibit at the 1962 Century 21 Seattle World's Fair. Installed in the Washington State Coliseum as part of the exhibit "Century 21 - The Threshold and The Threat," the Bubbleator took passengers from the ground level to the exhibit experience on the second floor. The Bubbleator Operator, dressed…
ID Number:2005.50.1
Date:Circa 1962
Microphone used by Elise Olmstead in the very first broadcast in Seattle, ca. 1925
Elise Olmstead, originally from England, was the second wife of Roy Olmstead, one of the most notorious bootleggers in King County during the Prohibition years of the 1920s. In October of 1924, the couple started a radio station called KFQX. There was a studio in the Smith Tower but mostly Elise did the broadcast from their Mt. Baker home. The…
ID Number:2007.1.154.1
Date:Circa 1925
Desk used at Arthur Denny's post office, 1850-1860
This desk, made locally by an unknown cabinetmaker, was used in the first Seattle post office run by Postmaster Arthur A. Denny in his cabin from 1852-1853.
ID Number:2009.59.1
Date:Circa 1850-1860