133 results for: Maritime
Oil painting, "The Saint Paul," by Kathleen Houlahan, ca. 1923-1940
The St. Paul was a three-masted clipper ship built in Maine in 1874. She made several trips around Cape Horn to the west coast of the United States. By 1930, she was no longer a working ship and, in 1934, was turned into a museum docked on the shores of Ballard. Less than a decade later, the St. Paul was…
ID Number:1983.14.1
Date:Circa 1923-1940
Set of brass luggage claim check tags from Seattle Steamship Company, ca. 1900-1920
The Seattle Steamship Company waiting room was located at the White Star Dock at the foot of Spring Street. In the early twentieth century, travellers most likely received their baggage claim checks at this location before boarding. The numbers on these tags include: 108, 302, 375, 492, 719, 725,773, and 794.
ID Number:1984.20.ONLINE
Date:Circa 1900-1920
Pencil drawing of a sidewheeler at a dock by Emily Inez Denny, ca. 1870-1915
The daughter of one of Seattle’s founding families, Emily Inez Denny (1853 – 1918) was both an artist and writer. Greatly influenced by seeing the drawings of Sarah Willoughby as a student at the Washington Territorial University, she took on painting as a life-long pursuit. Denny trained with Miss Parsons, Thomas Harrison, and Harriet Beecher. In 1909, she authored and…
ID Number:1984.74.11
Date:Circa 1870-1915
Folding stool from a Lake Washington ferry, ca. 1930
Captain John Anderson started the Anderson Steamboat Company and Lake Washington Ferries, providing ferry service across Lake Washington before roads and bridges connected Eastside communities to Seattle. Anderson bought his first passenger steamer, the Winnifred, in 1895, and by 1909, held a monopoly on Lake steamers. The company was in direct competition with King County ferry services. He made most…
ID Number:1986.8.1
Date:Circa 1930
Oil portrait of Horace W. McCurdy by Charles A. Veteto, ca. 1970
Horace W. McCurdy (1899-1989), born in Port Townsend, was a shipbuilder, bridge builder, civic leader, native Washingtonian, and prolific maritime collector. Both the Lake Washington Floating Bridge and the Hood Canal Bridge were built by his firm, Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging. He was instrumental in the establishment and early development of MOHAI and he donated over 500 maritime-related artifacts…
ID Number:1990.19
Date:Circa 1970
Oil painting of the Duthie Shipyards by Amos Grant, 1919
J. F. Duthie & Company was a small shipyard in Seattle, Washington, established in 1911, that built cargo ships during during World War I . Most of the vessels built were "West boats," or steel-hulled cargo ships, used by the United States Shipping Board (USSB) on the west coast of the US. Not much is known about the artist Amos…
ID Number:1992.10
Date:1919
Full scale model of outboard motor without prop, ca. 1957
This prototype of the Boeing Model 540-4 gas-turbine outboard propulsion unit was innovative for its time due to its light weight relative to the capacity for horsepower. With few moving parts, this motor was fairly easy to build, dependable and utilized a variety of fuels. The drawbacks to this design included a higher building cost and fuel inefficiency. This particular…
ID Number:1993.16.2
Date:Circa 1957
Colored drawing of Cowichan Bay by Bertha Marie Boeing, September, 1952
Bertha Marie Potter Paschall (1891-1977) was married to William Boeing, founder of the Boeing Company. She exhibited her artistic talents in this colored drawing of Cowichan Bay located on the southeast edge of Vancouver Island. The work was a gift to her friend Virginia Denny (1905-1993), a member of the early Seattle settler family.
ID Number:1996.01.4
Date:1952
Sailor-style hat worn by tour guides on the Dominion Monarch, 1962
The Dominion Monarch was commissioned in 1939 and was a World War II troop transport ship. In the late 1950s, Eddie Black, a member of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair organizing committee, saved the ship from the scrapheap by helping to purchase the vessel and turning it into a floating hotel for fairgoers. Unfortunately, it was not a successful endeavor…
ID Number:1996.Dominion.02
Date:1962
Sport Air Cushion Vehicle model, ca. 1966
Walter A. Crowley (1917-2008) was an engineer at Boeing and a self-styled "garage" inventor. While at Boeing, he developed an air-bearing system for moving heavy objects like a 747 Jumbo Jet. Boeing established a subsidiary, Aero-Go, to develop this invention. This is a model of his actual working air cushion vehicle which was similar to the hydrofoil, but ultimately not…
ID Number:2000.49.1
Date:Circa 1966