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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
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
Ribbon advertising Seattle Rendering Works, ca. 1940s
Seattle Rendering Works Incorporated was a mid-20th century Seattle business. The process of rendering involves extracting oil or tallow from animal fat.
ID Number:2011.118.1
Date:Circa 1940
Washington Mutual Bank action teller doll in original packaging with accessories, ca. 2000
This doll was created as a marketing item to promote Washington Mutual's customer-friendly company policies. WaMu, a Seattle fixture from its founding in 1889, came to its demise during the 2008 recession.
ID Number:2011.WAMU.9
Date:Circa 2000
LIFEPAK 33 ® defibrillator/monitor from Physio-Control, Inc., ca. 1968
LIFEPAK 33 ® defibrillator/monitor from Physio-Control, Inc. was a revolutionary portable heart device. The same model was installed aboard Air Force One and Air Force Two, the aircraft assigned to carry the president and vice president of the United States.
ID Number:2012.28.3
Date:Circa 1968