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Cast metal feed prep tray for salmon hatchery, ca. 1940
This basket tray was used by the University of Washington Fisheries program. It was most likely used with the incubator (also in the MOHAI collection) designed by faculty member Lauren Donaldson in the 1940s. Donaldson was a pioneer in fish genetics and he is most remembered for his work in the study of salmon and his hatchery-raised fish. There is…
ID Number:1996.49.3
Date:Circa 1940
Astoria & Puget Sound Canning Company safe, ca. 1910
The fishing and canning industry has always been a boon for Seattle and all of the Pacific Northwest, including Alaska. This safe was first used by the Astoria & Puget Sound Canning Company in the early 1900s, and then shipped to Excursion Inlet, Alaska, for use in the company cannery store located there. The tumblers locked in the early 1970s…
ID Number:1997.11.1
Date:Circa 1910
Transportation token, "Puget Sound International RY & PR. CO.," 1920s-1930s
This token was exchanged for transportation fare. Tokens such as these were commonly used in Washington during the Depression Era.
ID Number:1998.51.17
Date:Circa 1920-1930
Tin of Gold Shield Coffee, 3 lbs., from Schwabacher Bros. and Company, ca. 1910
The Schwabacher Brothers, Louis (1837-1900), Abraham (1838-1909), and Sigmund (Sig) (1841-1917), were pioneering Bavarian-born Jewish merchants, important in the economic development of the Pacific Northwest. They owned several businesses bearing their family name, and opened a branch store in Seattle in 1869. Within a short time, the firm became Puget Sound's major wholesaler of canned goods, dry goods, and other…
ID Number:1999.6.71
Date:Circa 1910
Tin of Gold Shield Cayenne Pepper from Schwabacher Bros. and Company, ca. 1910
The Schwabacher Brothers, Louis (1837-1900), Abraham (1838-1909), and Sigmund (Sig) (1841-1917), were pioneering Bavarian-born Jewish merchants, important in the economic development of the Pacific Northwest. They owned several businesses bearing their family name, and opened a branch store in Seattle in 1869. Within a short time, the firm became Puget Sound's major wholesaler of canned goods, dry goods, and other…
ID Number:1999.6.77
Date:Circa 1910
Can of “Happy Home Sweet Corn” from Schwabacher Bros. & Co., ca. 1930s
The Schwabacher Brothers, Louis (1837-1900), Abraham (1838-1909), and Sigmund (Sig) (1841-1917), were pioneering Bavarian-born Jewish merchants, important in the economic development of the Pacific Northwest. They owned several businesses bearing their family name, and opened a branch store in Seattle in 1869. Within a short time, the firm became Puget Sound's major wholesaler of canned goods, dry goods, and other…
ID Number:1999.6.86
Date:Circa 1930
Tobacco plug cutter from Schwabacher Bros. and Company, ca. 1910
The Schwabacher Brothers, Louis (1837-1900), Abraham (1838-1909), and Sigmund (Sig) (1841-1917), were pioneering Bavarian-born Jewish merchants, important in the economic development of the Pacific Northwest. They owned several businesses bearing their family name, and opened a branch store in Seattle in 1869. Within a short time, the firm became Puget Sound's major wholesaler of canned goods, dry goods, and other…
ID Number:1999.6.88
Date:Circa 1910
Cigar tin from Schwabacher Bros. and Company, ca. 1910
The Schwabacher Brothers, Louis (1837-1900), Abraham (1838-1909), and Sigmund (Sig) (1841-1917), were pioneering Bavarian-born Jewish merchants, important in the economic development of the Pacific Northwest. They owned several businesses bearing their family name, and opened a branch store in Seattle in 1869. Within a short time, the firm became Puget Sound's major wholesaler of canned goods, dry goods, and other…
ID Number:2000.29.1
Date:Circa 1910
Print of watercolor painting of Pioneer Square in Seattle by Jess Cauthorn, 1952
Jess Dan Cauthorn (1923-2005) was born in Seattle and was a student at the Burnley School of Professional Art, which he later purchased and ran until it became the Art Institute of Seattle in 1982. He influenced many northwest artists and was a member of the American Watercolor Society, Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters, and the Northwest Watercolor Society.…
ID Number:2002.23.1
Date:1952
Painting of Olympic Mountains from West Seattle above Lincoln Park by Jessie M. Elliott, 1893
Jessie M. Elliott (1861-1950) was born in Merrimack, Wisconsin, in the spring of 1861 and died 89 years later in Seattle. She studied art in California and moved to Seattle in the late 1880s to open an art school. In addition to oil, Elliott worked in charcoal, metal, and enamels. She belonged to Women Painters of Washington, a group founded…
ID Number:2002.59.1
Date:1893