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Image of Chair from the house of the Hoo-Hoo lumberman fraternal organization, 1909

Chair from the house of the Hoo-Hoo lumberman fraternal organization, 1909

The International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo is a fraternal and service organization whose members are involved in the forests products industry. This chair is from the Hoo-Hoo House that was built for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909. The organization's mascot is the black cat and this feline image is stamped into the chair. The AYPE building was designed for the…
ID Number:2024.24.1
Date:1909
Image of Chair from the house of the Hoo-Hoo lumberman fraternal organization, 1909

Chair from the house of the Hoo-Hoo lumberman fraternal organization, 1909

The International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo is a fraternal and service organization whose members are involved in the forests products industry. This chair is from the Hoo-Hoo House that was built for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909. The organization's mascot is the black cat and this feline image is stamped into the chair. The AYPE building was designed for the…
ID Number:2024.24.2
Date:1909
Image of Bow tie with fish print worn on the Bill Nye The Science Guy tv show, 1990s

Bow tie with fish print worn on the Bill Nye The Science Guy tv show, 1990s

This bow tie was worn by Bill Nye (b. 1955) on the groundbreaking science education TV Show Bill Nye the Science Guy. Nye grew up in Washington D.C. and studied mechanical engineering at Cornell University. He moved to Seattle to work for Boeing and later Sundstrand Data Control. While working as an engineer, he also became interested in standup and…
ID Number:2024.39.19
Date:1993-1999
Image of Miniature totem pole carving by John T. Williams, ca. 1990-2010

Miniature totem pole carving by John T. Williams, ca. 1990-2010

John T. Williams (1960-2010) was a seventh-generation woodcarver carver from the Nuu-chah-nulth, a First Nations tribe indigenous to the Northwest Coast of Canada. He grew up moving between Vancouver, Victoria, and Seattle. His grandfather Sam Williams came to Seattle around 1900, when the city had an interest in totem poles and Northwest Coast art (a pole stolen from the Tlingit…
ID Number:2025.38.1
Date:Circa 1990-2010
Image of Miniature totem pole carving by John T. Williams, ca. 1990-2010

Miniature totem pole carving by John T. Williams, ca. 1990-2010

John T. Williams (1960-2010) was a seventh-generation woodcarver carver from the Nuu-chah-nulth, a First Nations tribe indigenous to the Northwest Coast of Canada. He grew up moving between Vancouver, Victoria, and Seattle. His grandfather Sam Williams came to Seattle around 1900, when the city had an interest in totem poles and Northwest Coast art (a pole stolen from the Tlingit…
ID Number:2025.38.2
Date:Circa 1990-2010
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