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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
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
Three leaded, stained glass windows from first Milwaukee train to Seattle, ca. 1911
The Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway (CM&SP) extended service to the Tacoma/Seattle area starting in 1911, providing a faster form of transportation from the Midwest to the Puget Sound.
ID Number:1951.427.11
Date:Circa 1911
Winning cup from 1908 Coach Pioneer Race
Harry Whitney Treat won this silver trophy cup when he competed in a horse-driven carriage race. The Treat family moved to Seattle in 1904 and were active in the founding of many local organizations and clubs.
ID Number:1952.70.1
Date:1908
Boeing B-1 flying boat airplane, ca. 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. Beginning in 1920, the plane was used on the first regularly scheduled international airmail route between Seattle and Victoria. The B-1 could carry…
ID Number:1952.552.1
Date:1919
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
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
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
Piece of wood from the Maple family wagon, 1862
A wood remnant of the lead wagon led by captain John W. Maple. The wagon train crossed the plains from Iowa to Seattle in 1862.
ID Number:1954.748.B
Date:1862
Model of first gas station at Holgate and East Marginal Way in Seattle in 1907
This model, of which the maker is unknown (possibly Stanley Stretton), features what claims to be the first gas station ever established right here in Seattle. This is highly debatable as it is more widely known that St. Louis, Missouri, holds that title dating back to 1905. The story goes that John L. Mclean, local manager for Standard Oil (now…
ID Number:1954.1698
Date:Circa 1950