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Eddie Bauer's patent for trousers, October 28, 1941
In 1920, avid outdoorsperson and local son Eddie Bauer (1899-1986) opened a sporting goods store called Eddie Bauer's Sport Shop in downtown Seattle. Initially specializing in tennis rackets, hand-made golf clubs, and fishing tackle, a brush with hypothermia led Mr. Bauer to develop alternatives to the heavy wool outer garments that most outdoor enthusiasts used at the time. He began…
ID Number:1967.4134.9.2
Date:1941
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Eddie Bauer's patent for boots, August 11, 1942
In 1920, avid outdoorsperson and local son Eddie Bauer (1899-1986) opened a sporting goods store called Eddie Bauer's Sport Shop in downtown Seattle. Initially specializing in tennis rackets, hand-made golf clubs, and fishing tackle, a brush with hypothermia led Mr. Bauer to develop alternatives to the heavy wool outer garments that most outdoor enthusiasts used at the time. He began…
ID Number:1967.4134.9.3
Date:1942
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Eddie Bauer's patent for a sleeping bag, January 4, 1944
In 1920, avid outdoorsperson and local son Eddie Bauer (1899-1986) opened a sporting goods store called Eddie Bauer's Sport Shop in downtown Seattle. Initially specializing in tennis rackets, hand-made golf clubs, and fishing tackle, a brush with hypothermia led Mr. Bauer to develop alternatives to the heavy wool outer garments that most outdoor enthusiasts used at the time. He began…
ID Number:1967.4134.9.4
Date:1944
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Kilbourne & Clark employees posing in front of factory, Seattle, June 1922
Kilbourne & Clark Manufacturing Co. was a firm founded in 1899 by electrical engineer Walter Gordon Clark (1876-1950) and dentist-turned-promoter of electric power utilities Edward Corliss Kilbourne (1856-1959). Initially established to sell electrical machinery and supplies, the firm scored a long string of successes in making and marketing early radio equipment for the U. S. Navy, shipping, and broadcast receivers.In…
ID Number:1969.4571.1
Date:1922
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Invitation to USS Nebraska launching on October 7, 1904
In 1904, the Moran Brothers shipyard in Seattle launched the battleship USS Nebraska (BB-14). This vessel was the first steel ship to be built on Puget Sound and the first naval battleship to be built in the Pacific Northwest. At the launching, bands played, people cheered, dignitaries made speeches, and Mary Nain Mickey, the daughter of the Governor of Nebraska,…
ID Number:1969.5072.100
Date:1904
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Invitation to USS Nebraska keel laying ceremony on July 4, 1902
In 1901, the Moran Brothers shipyard of Seattle won the bid to build one of three battleships for the U. S. Navy, the USS Nebraska (BB-14). The shipyard underwent major renovations to accommodate the construction of such a large vessel, including the building of a 600 foot long ship shed. The ship's keel laying ceremony was held on Independence Day…
ID Number:1969.5072.101
Date:1902
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Invitation to USS Rowan launching on April 8, 1898
In 1898, the Moran Bros. Company shipyard in Seattle launched the USS Rowan (also TB-8), a Navy torpedo boat which was the first war vessel built in the State of Washington. An estimated 10,000 people came to watch the ceremony on Elliott Bay during which the boat was christened by Adria Maude (Semple) Moale Langdon (1872-1947) the wife of Navy…
ID Number:1969.5072.102
Date:1898
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Brochure for the "Iron Chink" fish cleaning machine, circa 1909
In 1903, Seattle inventor Edmund A. Smith (1870-1909) developed a machine that gutted and cleaned salmon for canning 55 times faster than human workers. Most Northwest cannery workers were Chinese immigrants, and Smith, with "unselfconscious racism" (in the words of historian Carlos Schwantes), called his invention the Iron Chink. The innovation increased cannery profits, but forced thousands of people to…
ID Number:1970.4992.2
Date:Circa 1909
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Employees posing outside Lowman & Hanford Co. building on First and Cherry, Seattle, 1882
James D. Lowman (1856-1947) and Clarence Hanford (1857-1920) were business and civic leaders in early Seattle, each with ties to Seattle's founders. In 1882, they joined forces to found Lowman & Hanford Stationery and Printing Company. The firm advertised as booksellers, stationers, printers and binders but also sold typewriters, sewing machines, pianos and organs. After losing their original building in…
ID Number:1970.5046.3
Date:1882
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Employees posing outside Lowman & Hanford Co. building on First and Cherry, Seattle, 1888
James D. Lowman (1856-1947) and Clarence Hanford (1857-1920) were business and civic leaders in early Seattle, each with ties to Seattle's founders. In 1882, they joined forces to found Lowman & Hanford Stationery and Printing Company. The firm advertised as booksellers, stationers, printers and binders but also sold typewriters, sewing machines, pianos and organs. After losing their original building in…
ID Number:1970.5046.4
Date:1888