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Brown earthenware jar or jug, ca. 1900
This earthenware jar is believed to have once been owned and used by a local Chinese laborer to store liquor. These jars were often found left in agricultural fields in the area.
ID Number:1946.393.4
Date:Circa 1900
Opium scale found in Seattle street, ca. 1880s
Henry Coffin stated that he found this scale on a street in downtown Seattle around the time of the Great Seattle Fire. He was a child when his family arrived in Seattle in the spring of 1889.
ID Number:1964.3482.2
Date:Circa 1880
Japanese tea table, 1912
This bamboo table with removable tray was purchased at the Furuya Company in 1912, considered to be the only Japanese retailer in Seattle at that time. Masajiro Furuya, founder of this store, was born in Japan in 1862, immigrated to Vancouver, Canada, in 1890, and settled in Seattle in 1892. He first opened a grocery store and tailor shop on…
ID Number:1968.4471.1
Date:Circa 1912
Bamboo opium pipe confiscated in police raid in Seattle's Chinatown, ca. 1900
This opium pipe was said to have been seized in a raid in Seattle's Chinatown around 1900. The area was a favorite for police raids of the time amidst anti-Chinese and anti-immigrant sentiment. The police chief who picked it up, Charles "Wappy" Wappenstein, was eventually convicted of bribery and extortion for accepting payoffs from organized crime.
ID Number:1969.5072.74
Date:Circa 1900
Armchair, part of a set that was imported for the Goon Dip family, ca. 1890-1910
Imported for the Goon Dip family, this rosewood chair is hand-carved, with mother-of-pearl inlay. Typical of Chinese mortise and tenon joinery, there are no metal fasteners except the coins that hold the marble back splat in place. Because abstract landscapes or figures could be seen in cut marble, it was often used as a decorative element in Chinese furniture. In…
ID Number:1974.5914.1a
Date:1890-1910
Side table part of a set belonging to Chinese consul Goon Dip, consul for Oregon, Washington and Idaho, 1880-1930
Imported for the Goon Dip family, this rosewood table is hand-carved, with mother-of-pearl inlay. In the late 19th century, Goon Dip arranged the emigration of Chinese labor for Northwest canneries. He also served as Chinese consul, and owned the Milwaukee Hotel in Seattle's Chinatown. His daughter, Lillian Goon Dip, was born in 1900, grew up in the family hotel, then…
ID Number:1974.5914.2
Date:1880-1930
Woman's black alpaca wool cocktail dress with underskirt, 1956
This black cocktail dress was made in the Couture house of Christian Dior in Paris. It is from his 1956 Autumn/Winter collection. The main dress has a skirt that is split in front and would open when walking or sitting. For modesty, there is a slim black skirt worn underneath the main dress. The dress belonged to Seattleite Ann Dulien…
ID Number:1975.6058.8C2140
Date:1956
Two-piece yellow cocktail dress, ca. 1965
This cocktail dress, covered in shimmering plastic paillettes, was made by the New York designer Donald Brooks. Brooks designed costumes for stage and screen as well as his own line of ready-to-wear women’s clothing. The dress belonged to Seattleite Ann Dulien Diamond (1909-1984), who donated many high-fashion garments to MOHAI’s collection. She was born Ann Fabrikant in Russia (now Poland)…
ID Number:1975.6058.9C2201
Date:1965
Wah-sun Tea cannister, ca. 1900-1920
This tea canister was distributed by the Wason Brothers, a food distribution company in Seattle, and then sold in Ernie Baer's store in the Rainier Valley.
ID Number:1975.6156.2
Date:Circa 1900-1920
Woman's Chinese robe, ca. 1890-1910
This Chinese robe belonged to Seattleite Ann Dulien Diamond (1909-1984), who was a collector of art and clothing from Japan and China. She was born Ann Fabrikant in Russia (now Poland) in 1909 and came to the United States in 1911. She grew up in New York and moved to Seattle after her marriage to Louis T. Dulien in the…
ID Number:1978.6597.15C2364
Date:Circa 1890-1910