187 results for: Food and Beverage Industries
Rainier Beer crate, ca. 1930s-1960s
Rainier Brewing Company was established in 1878 in Seattle and their signature beer has been a popular brand in the Pacific Northwest ever since.
ID Number:2011.109.1
Date:Circa 1930-1960
Sunny Jim Pure Olde Fashioned Peanut Butter can, ca. 1950s
Sunny Jim Peanut Butter was founded by Germanus Wilhelm Firnstahl in 1921 after he moved with his family to Seattle from Wisconsin. Germanus and his wife Cecilia lined up their five children and selected son Lowell to be the face of their new peanut butter manufacturing company, "Sunny Jim." Despite his untimely death in 1933 in a football accident, Lowell's…
ID Number:2011.112.1
Date:Circa 1950
Tin and box for Brown & Haley Almond Roca candy, ca. 1960s
Brown & Haley, founded in Tacoma in the early 1900s and still in operation today, began as a candy company before WWI but hit it big with the invention of Almond Roca in 1923. In 1927, they began packaging it in a pink tin, which extended the shelf life. Besides the taste, it was the candy's ability to travel well…
ID Number:2011.112.3
Date:Circa 1961
Salt container from Tradewell Grocery Store in Seattle, ca. 1950s-1960s
Tradewell was a major supermarket chain founded in the Seattle area in 1939 and became a fixture of Pacific Northwest grocery retail before eventually fading out in the 1980s. Founding president Monte L. Bean transformed several failing grocers into this supermarket giant and served the company for two decades before shifting focus to companies he and his sons owned, namely…
ID Number:2011.112.4
Date:Circa 1950-1960
Bottle of Mapleine from Crescent Co., ca. 1950
The Crescent Manufacturing Company was founded in Seattle, Washington, in 1883 as Larsen Extract Company. In 1905, a Crescent company chemist and salesman concocted an imitation maple flavoring dubbed Mapleine. By the early twentieth century, Crescent was manufacturing 75 different extracts including Mapleine, as well as importing spices, coffee, and nuts. Crescent was sold to McCormick and Company in 1989,…
ID Number:2011.112.5
Date:Circa 1950
Round box for Almond Frangos, ca. 1980s
Frederick & Nelson was famous for their Frango chocolate truffles, now sold by Macy's Department stores. These round boxes are reminiscent of the ones sold during the 1950s, but this particular box is probably a historical re-issue created in the 1980s.
ID Number:2011.112.7
Date:Circa 1980
Round box for Mokas Coffee Frangos, ca. 1980s
Frederick & Nelson was famous for their Frango chocolate truffles, now sold by Macy's Department stores. These round boxes are reminiscent of the ones sold during the 1950s, but this particular box is probably a historical re-issue created in the 1980s.
ID Number:2011.112.8
Date:Circa 1980
Travel coffee mug from PEMCO Insurance, featuring Northwest Profile #76: The Super-Long Coffee Orderer, ca. 2012
Local insurance company, PEMCO, produced an advertising campaign featuring a series of quirky Pacific Northwest people. This one highlights Northwest Profile #76: The Super-Long Coffee Orderer, which pokes fun on a coffee travel cup.
ID Number:2012.75.1
Date:2012
Set of six tall Sick's/Rainier Brewing Company beer glasses, ca. 1939-1943
Following the repeal of prohibition, the Seattle Brewing and Malting Company was purchased by Fritz and Emil Sick, who then repurchased the Rainier brand and began brewing Rainier in 1935. The brewery went through several names, such as Sick's Seattle Brewing and Malting, and Sicks Rainier Brewing Company, during the 1935–1977 period.
ID Number:2013.28.1
Date:Circa 1939-1943
Six-pack beer carrier, Red Hook Seattle Sounders ECS No Equal Blonde, ca. 2014
Redhook Brewery distributed this specialty beer six-pack with carrier, celebrating the Seattle Sounders FC Emerald City Supporters (ECS), the soccer team's avid and highly dedicated supporting group. The logos for the Seattle Sounders and ECS are featured prominently on the carrier. Redhook was founded in Seattle in 1981 by Paul Shipman and Gordon Bowker.
ID Number:2014.28.9
Date:2014