187 results for: Food and Beverage Industries
Malt Rainier beer bottle, 1909
This malt beer was bottled in celebration of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, held in Seattle in 1909.
ID Number:1957.1359.1
Date:1909
China sauce dish, Carnation Company pattern, 1920-1930
In 1889, Amos Eldridge Stuart founded the Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company in Kent, Washington. He changed the name to Carnation Evaporated Milk Company in 1901 and established a cow breeding farm in Tolt, Washington. By 1926, the company had six Seattle-area dairies and six local evaporated milk plants, plus 24 evaporated milk plants elsewhere in the country. The town…
ID Number:1959.1625.7
Date:1920-1930
Oil portrait of Emil George Sick by Charles J. Fox, ca. 1950
Emil George Sick was born in 1894 in Tacoma, Washington, and died in Seattle in 1964. He was best known for being a successful brewery industrialist (Sicks Rainier Brewing Company and others), and owner of Seattle's baseball team, the Rainiers, which he purchased in 1937. A year later, he built the now demolished baseball stadium that beared his name: Sick…
ID Number:1960.1965
Date:Circa 1950
Corkscrew allegedly used by John Considine, ca. 1890-1900
In the early 1890s, John Considine operated a box house in Seattle, which was a type of theater that also included a saloon and a brothel. In 1894, the city attempted to crackdown on vice in the areas south of Yesler way, and so the council banned the sale of liquor at box houses. Considine moved to Spokane for a…
ID Number:1961.2264.1
Date:Circa 1890-1900
Glass milk bottle, 1/2 pint, ca. 1920-1940
In 1889, Amos Eldridge Stuart founded the Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company in Kent, Washington. He changed the name to Carnation Evaporated Milk Company in 1901 and established a cow breeding farm in Tolt, Washington. By 1926, the company had six Seattle-area dairies and six local evaporated milk plants, plus 24 evaporated milk plants elsewhere in the country. The town…
ID Number:1961.2384.3
Date:Circa 1920-1940
Metal pail of "Dan's famous home rendered pure lard," ca. 1928
Polish immigrant Dan Zido came to Seattle in 1906. He had been an apprentice to a sausage maker while in Poland, and when he arrived in Seattle he worked at a meat packing plant. He opened Dan’s Market at the north end of the Pike Place market in 1924. Zido retired in the 1940s and died in 1953. The business…
ID Number:1962.2684.1
Date:Circa 1928
Ice pole or ice pick from the William Myers meat market in Georgetown, ca. 1900
William Myers was in the meat business since before 1900, but he opened his butcher shop in the Georgetown neighborhood on Duwamish Avenue, now Airport Way, around 1911 and was in operation until the 1960s.
ID Number:1962.2713.4
Date:Circa 1900
Cast iron receipt holder from the William Myers meat market in Georgetown, ca. 1911
William Myers was in the meat business since before 1900, but he opened his butcher shop in the Georgetown neighborhood on Duwamish Avenue, now Airport Way, around 1911 and was in operation until the 1960s.
ID Number:1962.2713.21
Date:Circa 1911
Gold Shield tin for black pepper from Schwabacher Bros. and Company, ca. 1910
The Schwabacher Brothers, Louis (1837-1900), Abraham (1838-1909), and Sigmund (Sig) (1841-1917), were pioneering Bavarian-born Jewish merchants, important in the economic development of the Pacific Northwest. They owned several businesses bearing their family name, and opened a branch store in Seattle in 1869. Within a short time, the firm became Puget Sound's major wholesaler of canned goods, dry goods, and other…
ID Number:1962.2713.46
Date:Circa 1910
Cash till from the William Myers meat market in Georgetown, ca. 1900
William Myers was in the meat business since before 1900, but he opened his butcher shop in the Georgetown neighborhood on Duwamish Avenue, now Airport Way, around 1911 and was in operation until the 1960s.
ID Number:1963.2960.3
Date:Circa 1900