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Cotton tote bag featuring the logo for "Fin Records," ca. 2015
Fin Records promoted Hip Hop music in the Seattle community and was voted Best Local Label of 2012 by the Seattle Weekly. It was founded in 2010 and promoted a variety of artists including KAIROS, Low Hums, Lures, Tangerine, SEACATS, Gavin Guss, Red Jacket Mine, J. Pinder, Pigeonhed, The Young Evils, Jack Endino, Long Distance Poison, STAG, and dozens more,…
ID Number:2016.43.RefFinBag
Date:Circa 2015
Pair of shoes with wooden soles, made during WWII, ca. 1943-1945
L. Jane Hastings became a prominent and well-respected architect in Seattle in the 1950s and was involved in many architectural, professional, and community organizations in the area. Jane owned several pairs of clogs made to order and she remembers wearing these clogs on a trip to Holland where people pointed at them and were amazed. The maker, Oscar Auestad, a…
ID Number:2016.46.1
Date:Circa 1943-1945
Peach delivery bag, 2016
Peach is an online food delivery company in Seattle focusing on delivering local restaurant food to working professionals.
ID Number:2016.48.1
Date:2016
Denim shirt made by Brittania, ca. 1975-1979
This denim shirt has leather piping and a woven embellishment on the front pockets. It belonged to Don Holder, who worked in IT at Brittania from 1975 to 1979 and purchased it from the company store. Brittania Sportswear, is credited with bringing fashion jeans from London to the United States in the early 1970s. Prior to this, denim was mostly…
ID Number:2016.57.1
Date:1975-1979
Brown leather jacket made by Brittania, 1975-1979
This brown leather jacket belonged to Don Holder, who worked in IT at Brittania from 1975 to 1979 and purchased it from the company store. Brittania Sportswear was an influential Seattle-based casualwear brand, credited with bringing fashion jeans from London to the United States in the early 1970s. Prior to this, denim was mostly a workwear staple, available in simple,…
ID Number:2016.57.2
Date:1975-1979
Beer bottle, Reuben's Brews and Rainier Brews, "R & R Pils," 2017
In 2017, the iconic and long-established Rainier Beer paired up with a Seattle microbrewery, Reuben's Brews, located in the Ballard neighborhood, to create this hoppy pilsner.
ID Number:2016.100.5
Date:2017
Beer bottle, Pyramid Brewing Co., "Local Generations Imperial IPA," 2017
Seattle-based Pyramid Brewing Company celebrates the iconic and long-standing Bartell Drugs, founded in 1890, and one of the first businesses established in Seattle. The retail drug company has been owned by four generations of the Bartell family.
ID Number:2016.100.6
Date:2017
Visio software company neon-lighted building sign, ca. 1995
Visio Corporation was a software company based in Seattle, Washington. Its principle product was a diagramming application software of the same name. Visio was acquired by Microsoft in 2000 and is now a division of that company. This sign is from the Seattle World Trade Center East building.
ID Number:2016.105.1
Date:Circa 1995
Visio product box, "Drag & Drop Drawing for Everyday Graphics," 1992
Visio Corporation was a software company founded in 1989 in Seattle. Its principal product was a diagramming application software of the same name. Visio was acquired by Microsoft in 2000 and became a division of that company.
ID Number:2016.105.2
Date:1992
Metal printing template for Uwajimaya advertisement, ca. 1970
This printing plate is from the Moriguchi family who founded Uwajimaya, a family-owned supermarket chain headquartered in Seattle's Chinatown International District with other locations in the Pacific Northwest. It was used to create newspaper advertisements for the store. Fujimatsu Moriguchi began his enterprise in 1928, selling fishcakes and other goods from his truck in Tacoma, Washington. In the mid 1940s,…
ID Number:2016.Uwajimaya.4
Date:Circa 1970