This Just In!- Edmonds Arts Festival Poster Painting
This Just In! The Edmonds Historical Museum features recent collection acquisitions. This month we are featuring the Edmonds Arts Festival Poster Painting.
This Just In!- Princess Theater Movie Poster
This Just In! The Edmonds Historical Museum features recent collection acquisitions. This month we are featuring the Princess Theater Movie Poster.
This Just In!- Telegraph and Issaquah Ferry Paintings
This Just In! The Edmonds Historical Museum features recent collection acquisitions. This month we are featuring the Telegraph and Issaquah Ferry Paintings.
This Just In!- Museum Skylight Vent
This Just In! The Edmonds Historical Museum monthly blog post about recent collection acquisitions. This month we are featuring the Museum Skylight Vent.
This Just In!- John Madden Football 1988
This Just In! The Edmonds Historical Museum monthly blog post about recent collection acquisitions. This month we are featuring John Madden Football 1988.
This Just In! -Mar-Vel Marble Sign
This Just In! The Edmonds Historical Museum monthly blog post about recent collection acquisitions. This month we are featuring the Mar-Vel Marble Sign.
Wilson Declares War & Edmonds Rallies its Citizens
The citizens of Edmonds immediately organized to meet the challenges of the coming months. Those citizens who knew they would not be eligible to join one of the armed services formed a citizens group: the Home Guard Association. The petition for this group stated, “…to safeguard the lives and property of the citizens of our …
An Edmonds Childhood
William Kingdon and Vadner Gessner were married on August 29, 1891 at Quilcene, Jefferson County, Washington. In 1893 they traveled to Edmonds where William worked with O.C. Sorensen in logging operations before moving away for a short period of time, returning to Edmonds in 1898. Ivy May Kingdon was delivered by Dr. Chase at Edmonds on …
Frances E. Anderson
Frances Elizabeth Anderson was born November 16, 1890 in Drummond, Montana to Jennie Potts and C.J. Anderson. Her parents and her older brother, Lorne Bruce Anderson, had moved from Ridgetown, Ontario, Canada to Drummond in August of 1889. Both her father and her uncle, W.J. Potts worked for the Great Northern Railroad. In January of …
Edmonds’ 400 Block of Main Street
A fire downtown Edmonds in August 1909 destroyed many buildings and left many businesses without storefronts to conduct affairs. A number of citizens saw this as an opportunity to rebuild downtown with materials that would be less susceptible to fire in the future. Dr. Jacob Danford Sherrick, who arrived in Edmonds around 1907, owned the …
The Princess Theatre
Research Corner Archives The Princess Theatre By Kathe Hall from the Museum Light June 2004 Following several downtown fires, original wooden buildings lining George Street (Main Street) were being replaced with concrete and brick fire-proof construction. John McGinnis, owner of the property between the Danish American Bakery and Ohio L. Miller’s law office, decided to construct …
Intern Check-in
What’s Happening at Storage? It is hard to believe Summer is on its way out! We have been quite busy at the museum, and thanks to Briana and Danielle, our off-site artifact storage is on its way to looking fantastic. In the past two years we have moved our artifacts twice. As you may know, moving …