14 results for: Temperance and Prohibition
Microphone used by Elise Olmstead in the very first broadcast in Seattle, ca. 1925
Elise Olmstead, originally from England, was the second wife of Roy Olmstead, one of the most notorious bootleggers in King County during the Prohibition years of the 1920s. In October of 1924, the couple started a radio station called KFQX. There was a studio in the Smith Tower but mostly Elise did the broadcast from their Mt. Baker home. The…
ID Number:2007.1.154.1
Date:Circa 1925
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 After Prohibition was repealed in 1932, Elmer E. Hemrich, with a group of Seattle investors, purchased the Tacoma brewery and established Columbia Breweries, Inc. from which this Alt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
Mechanical figure, "Dr. Wise," an alcohol temperance display used by the Washington State Chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), 1920s
This mechanical display is related to the Prohibition efforts in Seattle and Washington State in the 1920s and later. Several versions of this mechanical figure was traveled around the country by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) to promote abstinence from alcohol, including after the repeal of Prohibition. Referred to as "Charlie" or "Dr. Wise," this particular display that was…
ID Number:2020.16.1
Date:Circa 1920
Door from John "Doc" Hamilton's speakeasy in Seattle, ca. 1920s
John Henry "Doc" Hamilton (1891-1942) moved from Mississippi to Seattle around 1914 at the age of 23. He served in WWI in the 92nd infantry division in France and returned to Seattle after the war ended. When the Prohibition Act took effect in 1920, Hamilton opened his first speakeasy in his home on E. Union Street. Seattle police shut it…
ID Number:2024.27.1
Date:Circa 1920-1930