66 results for: Lake Washington
Oil painting on copper of Dr. H. B. Bagley by Harriet Foster Beecher, 1899
Dr. Herman Beardsley Bagley (1842-1899), an operative surgery and surgical disease specialist, arrived in Seattle in 1875. In the 1880s, he was part of the Lake Washington Improvement Company and one of several men to first conceive the Lake Washington Ship Canal. H.B. Bagley became quite wealthy through real estate and owned a home at 4th Avenue and Spring Street…
ID Number:1924.709.2
Date:1899
Sign from Yesler Way Cable Car Line, ca. 1910
The Seattle City Railway, originally named the Lake Washington Cable Railway, was in operation from 1888 until 1940. Known as the Yesler Way Cable Car line, it started from Yesler Way and Fruit Street at Pioneer Place and ran east via Yesler to Lake Washington.
ID Number:1947.441.a
Date:Circa 1910
Art Nouveau vase, ca. 1900
This vase was donated to the museum by Guendolen Carkeek Plestcheeff (1892-1994). Plestcheeff was born in Seattle in 1892 at the First Hill mansion home of her parents, British-born Seattle pioneers Morgan and Emily Carkeek. Guendolen was sent to Europe for schooling at age 13 and spent much of the adult life traveling between Seattle and Europe. Following in the…
ID Number:1952.529.3
Date:Circa 1900
Colorized photograph of Boeing B-1 mail plane on Lake Union, 1919
The B-1 was the first aircraft designed and assembled entirely by the Boeing Airplane Company for commercial rather than military purposes. The hull was made using laminated wood veneer, and the wings were framed with Washington-grown spruce. Eddie Hubbard is best known as the pilot who inaugurated international airmail service between Seattle, Washington to Victoria, British Columbia. Beginning in 1920,…
ID Number:1953.345.b.2
Date:1919
Photographic print of portrait drawing of John Edward Chilberg by Frank Calvert, 1909
Frank Calvert (1876-1920) was an illustrator for the Seattle Times, a painter, and a member of the Society of Beaux Arts, which was established "to develop art and its appreciation here in the Northwest." In 1908, he helped create and develop an art colony in the Bellevue area on the eastern shores of Lake Washington, and the City of Beaux…
ID Number:1954.751
Date:1909
Figurehead from the four-masted bark William T. Lewis built as the Robert Duncan in Scotland in 1891
This figurehead was originally made for a ship called the Robert Duncan and represented the bearded Mr. Duncan. When the ship came under the management of Hind Rolph it was renamed the William T. Lewis after the port captain. Lewis only had a mustache, so the figurehead was given a “shave” with a chisel and rasp. It was donated to…
ID Number:1955.970.228
Date:1891
Figurehead of woman from Iolanda, 1908
This figurehead is one of several in the MOHAI collection donated by Horace W. McCurdy. 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…
ID Number:1955.970.485
Date:1908
Claire Hammons miniature house, 12th scale model, 1945-1955
This miniature mansion was donated to MOHAI by Claire Bagley Hammons in 1955. Mrs. Hammons and her husband, Frederick Dent Hammons, had the house model designed by Seattle architect Joseph S. Cote (designer of the Green Lake Carnegie Library) and then spent more than a decade working on the detailed furnishings. Hand-made carpets, miniature paintings, clocks made from vintage watches,…
ID Number:1955.974.1.1
Date:1945-1955
Silver cup engraved with the name "Major Granville Owen Haller," ca. 1860
Granville Owen Haller (1819-1897) was a US Army military officer who became a wealthy and prominent Seattle businessman. In 1852, G.O. Haller was promoted to Major and was transferred from service in the Mexican-American War to the Washington Territory. During his service in the Civil War he was dismissed in 1863. In 1883, he returned to the Seattle area and…
ID Number:1957.1333.1
Date:Circa 1860
Slo-Mo-Shun IV hydroplane, built in 1929 and rebuilt in 1956
The Slo-Mo-Shun IV hydroplane (rebuilt with a model of the engine) brought unlimited hydroplane racing to Seattle with her Gold Cup win. The unlimited hydroplane is an example of aerodynamic design in boat building, and it is best remembered by the estimated 200,000 exhilarated spectators on Lake Washington's shoreline as it sped to a new world record in the 1951…
ID Number:1959.1701
Date:1929