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Printing block featuring an image of the Space Needle from Tony Ferrucci's Art Printing Co., ca. 1960s
Tony Ferrucci purchased Art Printing Co. on Fourth Avenue S in Seattle after training in graphic design at Seattle's Burnley School of Professional Art.
ID Number:2011.28.3
Date:Circa 1960
Boeing ID badge for employee K.E. Denby, 1971
This is an official Boeing ID badge decorated with a special "FirSST" pin. Boeing’s supersonic transport, the SST, was funded, then defunded. Concerns about noise and air pollution killed it in Congress. K.E. Denby left the company after the program was scrapped.
ID Number:2011.32.1
Date:1971
Set of five house moving log rollers, ca. 1880
These rollers were made from a maple tree that was cut down in 1880 at what is today 14th and Jackson in Seattle. The wood was airdried for several years before being cut into rollers, which were used to move houses during the Denny Regrade in the early 1900s, and later for the Dearborn cut and Atlantic Street overpass projects…
ID Number:2011.43.1
Date:Circa 1880
Rainier Brewing Co. beer can, 24 oz., ca. 1990
This 24 ounce can was distributed in the late 20th century for Rainier Brewing Company, an iconic Seattle brand founded in 1884. Brewery production at the original site began in 1878 and continued until 1999 when it was purchased by Stroh Brewing Company, now Pabst.
ID Number:2011.66.2
Date:Circa 1990
Pacific Brewing & Malting Co., Pacific Beer bottle, 1915
The Pacific Brewing and Malting Company was founded in Tacoma in 1897 with the merger of Puget Sound Brewing Company and Milwaukee Brewing Company. The Pacific Beer brand was one of the most popular on the West Coast. This bottle was distributed just before the company was shut down in 1916 due to state-wide Prohibition. In 2014, the company was…
ID Number:2011.92.1
Date:1915
Beer bottle for "Sky Hag IPA", Airways Brewing Company, Kent, WA, 2012
Airways Brewing Company was founded in Kent, Washington, in 2010. The "Sky Hag IPA" facetiously honors "the bitter women of the air who refuse to retire" according to the company's website.
ID Number:2011.92.45
Date:2010
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