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Washington State motorcycle license, 1974
From 1935 to 1981, all passenger car license plates were assigned a letter code based on their county of issuance. There were 40 codes used: one for each of the 39 counties in Washington state, and a special code for mail-order plates. The "ZZ-999" plate number corresponds to the county of Asotin. By 1981, several heavily populated counties had exhausted…
ID Number:1974.5901.1
Date:1974
Life preserver ring from the SS President Grant/Seattle, ca. 1948
The USS Grant (AP-29) was a U.S. transport ship from the 1920s through World War II.
ID Number:1974.5920.1
Date:Circa 1948
Model made circa 1950-1970 of cannery tender, M.S. Captain Bing
The donor of this ship model, John Tenneson, owned and operated the Superior Packing Company plant in Tenakee, Alaska, with the home port based in Seattle, Washington. Superior Packing Company was in operation from 1916 into the 1960s, canning and distributing salmon, crab, and shrimp under the Captain Bing brand. The M.S. Bing was one of the company's vessels and…
ID Number:1975.6066.1
Date:Circa 1950-1970
Woman's natural linen automobile coat or duster, ca. 1900
Between 1890 and 1910, fashion designers struggled to come up with a driving garment for women. Driving an automobile was almost always an adventure. Cars lacked roofs and windshields, and were very unreliable. Roads, mostly unpaved, were dusty or muddy. Both men and women preferred the new natural linen motor coats, sometimes called "dusters." These garments were considered chic and…
ID Number:1975.6148.21C2189
Date:Circa 1900
Railroad lantern, ca. 1895
This railroad lantern belonged to Herman Dehnhoff (1862-1935) who was born in Germany and arrived in Snohomish in 1890 to work on the Northern Pacific Railroad. The lantern is from the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, often abbreviated as C.M. & St.P. Ry.
ID Number:1975.6182
Date:Circa 1895
Ship's bell from the ferry CHIPPEWA, ca. 1905
The CHIPPEWA was the oldest ferry in Washington State's fleet. Built in 1900 in Ohio and sold to the Puget Sound Navigation Company in 1907, the CHIPPEWA travelled around the tip of South America to reach Seattle. The ferry was in operation from 1907 to 1964, carrying passengers and later cars all around Puget Sound including Seattle, Victoria, and Bellingham.
ID Number:1976.6295.1
Date:Circa 1905
Life preserver ring from ferry San Mateo, ca. 1947-1969
The S.S. San Mateo, part of the Evergreen fleet of ferries, operated on several different runs throughout the Puget Sound during its service.
ID Number:1976.6295.2
Date:Circa 1947-1969
Color photograph of the ferry Hyak in Puget Sound, reprinted by Forest and Whitmire Photography, ca. 1970
The MV Hyak Super-class ferry was built in 1966 at a San Diego shipyard and began service in July 1967. It would ferry passengers from Seattle to Bremerton and from Anacortes to the San Juan Islands. Hyak is chinook jargon for "speedy."
ID Number:1976.6295.18
Date:Circa 1970
Operator's seat from Seattle cable car, early 1900s
Seattle had its first cable car line in 1887 that went from Pioneer Square to Leschi Park via Yesler Way and Jackson Street. More lines were built around the city and, by 1892, there were 48 miles of streetcar track and 22 miles of cable railways. As a result of debt and the growing auto industry, the streetcar system was…
ID Number:1976.6387
Date:Circa 1900-1940
Red frame power scooter, 1931
This scooter is powered by pumping the handle and kicking. The purpose of the invention was to create a more simplified and practical toy for children. William Neuman, Jr., of Seattle designed and patented the scooter in 1931.
ID Number:1977.6433
Date:1931