187 results for: Food and Beverage Industries
Olympia Beer cans from Boeing Wind Tunnel, ca. 1934
Boeing constructed a supersonic twin sphere wind tunnel in the mid-1950s for the Dyna-Soar X-20, the SST (Supersonic Transport), and other projects. When the spheres were being demolished, they discovered over 3 million of these tin cans. They were used to help with temperature control in the giant spheres as air was pumped in and rushed out. This process was…
ID Number:2017.6.4
Date:1934
Pair of Bardahl cans from Boeing Wind Tunnel, ca. 1950s
Boeing constructed a supersonic twin sphere wind tunnel in the mid-1950s for the Dyna-Soar X-20, the SST (Supersonic Transport), and other projects. When the spheres were being demolished, they discovered over 3 million of these tin cans. They were used to help with temperature control in the giant spheres as air was pumped in and rushed out. This process was…
ID Number:2017.6.6
Date:Circa 1950
Husky Deli employee paper hat, ca. 1960s
Husky Deli has been a West Seattle establishment since 1932. These hats were worn by Husky Deli employees when serving customers in the 1960s. Jack Miller, son of original owner, remembers his dad making all the employees wear them in the store.
ID Number:2017.16.1
Date:Circa 1960
Cheese curd rake from Beecher's Handmade Cheese in Seattle, ca. 2016
Beecher's Handmade Cheese was founded by Kurt Beecher Dammeier in 2003 and soon after opened a shop in Pike Place Market in Seattle. The company was named for his great-grandfather Beecher McKenzie. The rake is used to separate the curds from the milk to make cheese.
ID Number:2017.54.1
Date:Circa 2010-2016
Fruit picker, ca. 2008
City Fruit was founded in 2008 when a a group of people decided to manage and grow urban orchards in Seattle. This picker was used by the City Fruit volunteers to harvest fruit from these urban orchards.
ID Number:2017.57.1
Date:Circa 2008
Dinner plate from the Dahlia Lounge, ca. 2016
Tom Douglas is a reknowned Seattle chef specializing in Pacific Northwest cuisine who opened his first restaurant, Dahlia Lounge, in 1989. He has essentially built an empire in the food industry by opening over a dozen award-winning restaurants, an event space, a cooking school, and he has established a product line of cooking and food-related merchandise.
ID Number:2018.4.1
Date:Circa 2016
Miniature Nalley's delivery truck, ca. 1950s
Nalley's was founded by Marcus Nalley in Tacoma in 1918. Starting with potato chips and eventually expanding to over 1,300 food products, Nalley's products are well known throughout the Pacific Northwest. This toy delivery car was the grand prize in a contest won by the donor when he was a child living in Woodinville. In 1958, Local television station KING-TV…
ID Number:2018.78.1
Date:Circa 1950
Candy box from Sutliff's Candy Company, ca. 1970s
Sutliff's, a candy competitor of Frederick & Nelson's Frangos, was established in 1938 in Seattle and is most known for producing the delicious "Habits" chocolates that were sold by Nordstrom in the early 1980s. This particular box of "Mellow Mint Truffle" candies was sold in the 1970s.
ID Number:2019.37.1
Date:Circa 1970
Manning's Coffee tin, 1 lb. ca. 1938
Brothers Edward McClure Manning (1872-1956) and William Wayland Manning (1874-1938) began selling freshly roasted coffee beans from a small stall in the Pike Place Market in 1908. Soon, they started offering customer cups of brewed coffee, and before long Manning's expanded its menu to include baked goods and full cafeteria service. By around 1950, the company had ten restaurants in…
ID Number:2019.54.1
Date:Circa 1938
Prototype thermal immersion circulator for heating water and cooking at an accurate and stable temperature, ca. 2010
A thermal immersion circulator is an electrically powered device that circulates and heats a warm fluid kept at an accurate and stable temperature. It is used in various processes, but starting in the late twentieth century, these devices have also been used for sous-vide food cooking, a method that uses airtight plastic bags in a water bath at regulated temperatures…
ID Number:2019.62.1
Date:Circa 2010