122 results for: Washington Territory
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
Handmade storage box, ca. 1880
This handmade maple wood box was used to keep secret papers by early Seattle resident John Hollister in the 1880s.
ID Number:1946.5
Date:Circa 1880
Side chair, 1830-1840
This chair belonged to the Mercer family. It traveled with them from Cadiz, Ohio, to Princeton, Illinois, in 1834, then across the plains to Seattle in 1852.
ID Number:1946.407.a
Date:1830-1840
Portrait of Thomas Mercer by Edwin Isaac Ames, ca. 1870-1900
Thomas Mercer (1813-1898) was born in Ohio and came to Seattle in 1852 with Aaron Mercer, his father, Dexter Horton, David Bagley, and William H. Showdy. His first wife died in 1853 and he remarried in 1859. He owned a dairy farm, was a probate judge for ten years, and was one of the first county commissioners. Artist Edwin Isaac…
ID Number:1946.407.b
Date:Circa 1870-1900
Slant front desk section, 1850-1900
This section of a desk originally belonged to early Seattle settler Henry Yesler and it was received second hand by Mr. Henry Perry (H.P.) Grant sometime around 1900. Just prior to 1900, Grant opened a bicycle shop, Gifford and Grant, which, in 1904, morphed into the first gasoline powered automobile dealership in Seattle, "The Seattle Auto Co.," once located at…
ID Number:1946.556.1B
Date:1850-1900
Silverplated chocolate pot or coffeepot from the family of Elisha P. Ferry, Washington Territory Governor from 1872-1880
This after-dinner coffepot was part of the silver service set used by Governor Elisha Ferry in the 1880s. Ferry was the territorial governor of Washington from 1872-1880.
ID Number:1947.394.1.3
Date:Circa 1880
Rug made by "Salmon Bay Charlie," ca. 1900
Hwehlchtid and Chilohleet'sa, known to many as Salmon Bay Charlie, and his wife Madelline, refused to move to the Port Madison Reservation. This mat fragment was from the home they shared at Shilshole, downhill from what is now Discovery Park. The maker twined the mat from factory-made yarn using techniques more commonly associated with cedar bark basketry.
ID Number:1947.437.2
Date:Circa 1900
Painting of Kikisoblu's (Princess Angeline) home, 1894
Kikisoblu (Princess Angeline), also known in Lushootseed as Kikisoblu, Kick-is-om-lo, or Wewick, was the eldest daughter of Chief Si'ahl (Chief Seattle). She was born around 1820 and lived until she was in her mid-seventies. The artist, Jessie M. Elliott (1861-1950), was born in Merrimack, Wisconsin, and moved to Seattle in the late 1880s to open an art school. In addition…
ID Number:1947.437.8
Date:1894
Wooden chest, 1853
This chest was brought across the country by pack train in 1853 by Washington Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens. Stevens traveled to Puget Sound from the Midwest to conduct surveys of the newly established territory.
ID Number:1948.22.3
Date:Circa 1850
Wood leveling plane made by Arthur Denny, 1800s
Arthur Denny, early white Seattle settler, made this wood plane from applewood in his orchard.
ID Number:1948.93
Date:Circa 1840-1880