412 results for: Retail and Department Stores
Gold scale, ca. 1895
These large scales were part of an extensive collection of Alaskan memorabilia donated to the museum by Miss Lulu Fairbanks. They are of the type used in a retail or commercial establishment for accurately measuring gold to make a sale. During the Klondike Gold Rush, merchants would weigh the miners’ gold on one side of the scale and balance it…
ID Number:1952.188
Date:Circa 1895
Evening dress with black chiffon and sequins, 1927
This dress, with its short skirt and boldly graphic rectangles of shiny and matte sequins, seems to presage the youthful mod dresses of the 1960s. It bears a label from “Madame Thiry,” a Seattle shop run by Louise Schwaebele Thiry. Thiry was born in Paris and came west in the early 20th century. Her fashion career started as a side…
ID Number:1953.278.C521
Date:Circa 1920-1930
Pale yellow silk slippers, ca. 1929
These women's shoes were sold at Turrell's, an original Seattle shoe retailer.
ID Number:1953.286.2A
Date:Circa 1929
Pink silk heels, ca. 1920s
These women's shoes were sold at a Seattle store, Harry & Kins, in the early 1920s.
ID Number:1953.286.2B
Date:Circa 1920-1925
Silver heeled shoes with gold accents, ca. 1920-1925
These silver and gold heels were sold at Seattle department store Frederick & Nelson in the late 1910s or early 1920s. The strap would have made them ideal for dancing.
ID Number:1953.596.2
Date:Circa 1920-1925
Silver shoes with straps, ca. 1920s
These women's shoes were made in New York and sold at Baxter & Baxter shoe retailer in Seattle.
ID Number:1953.598.3
Date:Circa 1920-1925
Peach silk heels with ankle strap and silver decoration, ca. 1925-1929
These women's shoes were sold at Seattle shoe store Turrell's, probably in the mid to late 1920s.
ID Number:1953.598.4
Date:Circa 1925-1929
High top two-toned boots, ca. 1905
These boots were sold at Eggert's, an early Seattle shoe store, around 1905.
ID Number:1953.633.3
Date:Circa 1905
Mahogany rocking chair from Standard Furniture Co. in Seattle, 1890
Standard Furniture Company was an early Seattle retailer of imported furniture that was part of the turn-of-the-century economic boom resulting from the Klondike Gold Rush. The enterprise constructed and opened a permanent high-rise on Second Avenue in 1908. This chair was from the Schrom family mansion located on Terry and Madison Avenues. John Schrom came to Seattle from Ohio in…
ID Number:1953.635
Date:1890
Pair of black kid leather boots, 1890
These women's shoes feature a label with the name L.A. Treen in Seattle and belonged to Mrs. J.H. Baillargeon.
ID Number:1953.659.13
Date:1890