34 results for: Great Depression
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
Colored drawing of a B-17 Flying Fortress by Abe Blashko, 1942
Boeing developed the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft in the 1930s for the US Army Air Corps (USAAC). The artist, Abe Blashko (1920-2011), was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, and was self-taught in the creation of drawings and prints. His works often featured the struggles of the Great Depression and the atrocities happening in Europe leading up to, and…
ID Number:2013.113.1
Date:1942
"Hard Times" dress from Prairie Underground, 2006
Prairie Underground was founded in Seattle in 2004 by designers Camilla Eckersley and Davora Lindner. This “Hard Times Dress” from 2006 represents a bolder and more confident design direction for the young company. The dress was the first to garner media attention after two Nylon magazine editors became fans of the dress and decided to feature Eckersley and Lindner as…
ID Number:2013.117.4
Date:2006
Life ring from the ferry Kalakala, ca. 1930s
The Kalakala, in operation on Puget Sound from 1935-1967, was designed and built to be fast, to look "futuristic", to showcase revolutionary construction technologies, and to express a buoyant confidence in Seattle's irrepressible progress even in the depths of the Great Depression.
ID Number:2026.13.1
Date:Circa 1930-1940