133 results for: Maritime
China teapot belonging to Captain Isaiah Folger, ca. 1805
Captai Isaiah Folger helmed the schooner Exact which delivered the Denny party, early Seattle settlers, to Alki Point on November 13, 1851. The Exact was docked in Portland before embarking on the nine days' voyage up the coast to Puget Sound.
ID Number:1941.169.b
Date:Circa 1805
Spike from Imperial Russian Navy sidewheel gunboat, the POLITKOFSKY, ca. 1850s
Built by the Russians in Sitka, the POLITKOFSKY came under United States ownership in 1867 when Russian Alaska was sold to the US. The gunboat was then sold into civilian service as a tugboat, Polly, working the northwest coast of North America until 1896. It was then converted to a schooner barge and carried eager gold seekers to Alaska during…
ID Number:1948.399.3
Date:Circa 1850-1860
Ship's bell from the steamer ship "Beaver," 1835
The SS Beaver which was the first steamship on the Northwest Coast. Originally built in 1835 in England, she sailed to Fort Vancouver by way of Cape Horn, Juan Fernandez, and the Sandwich Islands in 1836. Hudson's Bay Company owned the ship for many years, and the Beaver served the fur trading industry from Sitka, Alaska, to Astoria, Oregon, as…
ID Number:1952.2161.1
Date:1835
Oil landscape painting featuring a Foss tug chugging across Commencement Bay in Tacoma, Washington, ca. 1930-1940
The tug Justine Foss, named for youngest daughter of Wedell and Edith Foss, leaves Tacoma Harbor. An industrialized shoreline including Hooker Chemicals, the St. Regis pulp mill, St. Paul lumber mill and Dickman Lumber, sprawls beneath the pristine backdrop of Mount Rainier. To the left is a big log dump where enormous “cigar” log rafts arrived from the Olympic Peninsula.…
ID Number:1953.299.a
Date:Circa 1930-1940
Oil painting by Harriet Foster Beecher depicting a stretch of beach with Point Wilson lighthouse in the distance, 1882
Born in Indiana, Harriet Foster Beecher (1853-1918) traveled to the West Coast to attend the San Francisco School of Design. She moved to Seattle in 1880 and married Captain Herbert Foote Beecher. In 1881, Beecher opened what is thought to be Seattle’s first art studio. She painted Indigenous life in oils and watercolors, portraits of Seattle pioneers, and landscapes. Beecher…
ID Number:1953.303.2
Date:1882
Watercolor painting by Harriet Foster Beecher of two canoes and a sailboat near a beach, ca. 1880s-1990s
Born in Indiana, Harriet Foster Beecher (1853-1918) traveled to the West Coast to attend the San Francisco School of Design. She moved to Seattle in 1880 and married Captain Herbert Foote Beecher. In 1881, Beecher opened what is thought to be Seattle’s first art studio. She painted Indigenous life in oils and watercolors, portraits of Seattle pioneers, and landscapes. Beecher…
ID Number:1953.303.11
Date:Circa 1880-1900
Watercolor painting of a beach scene with Native American canoe by Harriet Foster Beecher, ca. 1870-1915
Born in Indiana, Harriet Foster Beecher (1853-1918) traveled to the West Coast to attend the San Francisco School of Design. She moved to Seattle in 1880 and married Captain Herbert Foote Beecher. In 1881, Beecher opened what is thought to be Seattle’s first art studio. She painted Indigenous life in oils and watercolors, portraits of Seattle pioneers, and landscapes. Beecher…
ID Number:1953.303.15
Date:Circa 1870-1915
Ship's wheel, SS Milwaukee, 1913
The SS Milwaukee, built by Seattle Construction and Dry Dock in 1913, was the last steam tug on Puget Sound. It was used by the Milwaukee Terminus Railway Company to tranship freight from rail to deep sea steamships.
ID Number:1954.559
Date:1913
Souvenir flag from the launch of the USS Golden Gate, 1897
This souvenir flag is from the launch of the Coast Guard boarding boat, the USS Golden Gate, on February 13, 1897. It was the first all-steel vessel built and launched in Washington State by the Moran Brothers Company in Seattle.
ID Number:1955.880.c
Date:1897
Copper plate etching of the ship Columbia Rediviva in 1792, by Joe Knowles, ca. 1930
Joe Knowles (1869-1942), was born in Maine but came to Seaview, Washington, in 1917. He was described as a sailor, newspaper illustrator, lecturer, author, motion picture producer and actor, showman, nature tamer, Boy Scout councilor and artist of etchings, water colors, and oils. This first edition copper plate etching print features the ship, Columbia Rediviva, captained by explorer Robert Gray…
ID Number:1955.970.87
Date:Circa 1930