187 results for: Food and Beverage Industries
Beer bottle, "Alt Heidelberg Pale Beer," ca. 1935
In the late 1890s, Emil Kliese was head brewmaster for Tumwater-based Capital Brewing Company (later Olympia Brewing Company). In 1900, he left Capital to start Columbia Brewing Company in Tacoma. After Prohibition was repealed in 1932, Elmer E. Hemrich, with a group of Seattle investors, purchased the Tacoma brewery and established Columbia Breweries, Inc. from which this Alt Heidelberg Pale…
ID Number:2014.64.1
Date:Circa 1935
Waitsburg Bourbon Whiskey bottle from Oola Distillery in Seattle, 2014
Kirby Kallas-Lewis founded Oola Distillery in the Capital Hill neighborhood of Seattle in 2010. Oola Distillery produces small batches of gin, vodka, flavored vodkas and bourbon whiskey.
ID Number:2014.93.1
Date:2014
Vodka bottle from Oola Distillery in Seattle, 2014
Kirby Kallas-Lewis founded Oola Distillery in the Capital Hill neighborhood of Seattle in 2010. Oola Distillery produces small batches of gin, vodka, flavored vodkas and bourbon whiskey.
ID Number:2014.93.2
Date:2014
Rainier Beer neon sign, "Rainier Dry Special," ca. 1990-2000
This neon Rainier Beer sign is one of three in the MOHAI collection that came from a south Seattle bar called the "Beverly Park Tavern." The bar was located at 10843 1st Ave S just north of Burien and was in operation from at least 1990 (or prior) until about 2007. The donor's son worked for Boeing and frequented this…
ID Number:2014.105.1
Date:Circa 1990-2000
Rainier Beer neon sign with company logo "R," ca. 1990-2000
This neon Rainier Beer sign is one of three in the MOHAI collection that came from a south Seattle bar called the "Beverly Park Tavern." The bar was located at 10843 1st Ave S just north of Burien and was in operation from at least 1990 (or prior) until about 2007. The donor's son worked for Boeing and frequented this…
ID Number:2014.105.2
Date:Circa 1990-2000
Rainier Beer neon sign featuring the company's "Ice" brand, ca. 1990-2000
This neon Rainier Beer sign is one of three in the MOHAI collection that came from a south Seattle bar called the "Beverly Park Tavern." The bar was located at 10843 1st Ave S just north of Burien and was in operation from at least 1990 (or prior) until about 2007. The donor's son worked for Boeing and frequented this…
ID Number:2014.105.3
Date:Circa 1990-2000
Ceramic "piggy" bank representing a steer, from the Milwaukee Sausage Co., ca. 1950s
Despite the confusing name, the Milwaukee Sausage Company was started in Seattle by three immigrants (Max Rind from Bohemia, Joseph and Robert Seifert from Hungary) in 1912. They were first located at 20th Avenue and E. Columbia Street before they moved to a newly built building at 2900 4th Avenue in 1937. This toy bank was a promotional item that…
ID Number:2015.79.2
Date:Circa 1950
Whiskey bottle, "M & K Gottstein, Pacific Club," ca. 1910
Meyer and Kessell Gottstein were Seattle wholesale liquor and cigar dealers in business from 1889 to 1914. Their storefront location changed several times during this period including: 205 Commercial (1889-1891), 213 Commercial (1893), 610 Front (1895), 108 W Yesler Way (1899-1903), and 206 1 st Ave S (1904-1914). "Pacific Club" and "The Goldbar" were two of the M & K…
ID Number:2015.84.1
Date:Circa 1910
Red felt night cap featuring the Langendorf Bread Company motto, "It's Baked While You Sleep" ca. 1950
The Langendorf Bread Company was a long-standing business in Seattle. The red night cap plays on the idea that the workers at Langendorf are baking bread while you sleep.
ID Number:2016.21.1
Date:Circa 1950
Patch of embroidered cloth, probably for an apron, with the Langendorf Bread company logo and the motto, "It's Ovenly," ca. 1950
The Langendorf Bread Company was a long-standing business in Seattle. The embroidered image of a chef with wings and a halo plays on the "heavenly"-ness of the bread, along with the play on words: "It's Oven-ly".
ID Number:2016.21.2
Date:Circa 1950