198 results for: Food and Beverage Industries
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Matthew Radford moving Seattle's Best Coffee bags at warehouse, Vashon Island, March 22, 1991
Seattle's Best Coffee started out as the Wet Whisker, a Vashon Island ice cream and coffee shop founded by Jim Stewart. In the early 1980s, the name changed to Stewart Brothers Wet Whisker, then to Stewart Brothers Coffee. Business began to expand, and new shops opened in Bellevue and Pike Place Market around 1984. In 1991, the company was renamed…
ID Number:2000.107.039.02.07
Date:1991
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John Chakirian and Gregory Taylor at Liberty Orchards candy factory, Cashmere, WA, August 1978
Liberty Orchards was founded in the early 20th century by Armenian immigrants and brothers-in-law Mark Balaban and Armen Tertsagian. The family grew apples and pears, but storage challenges stimulated the development of candy products, notably Aplets and Cotlets, versions of Eastern Mediterranean Turkish delight. By the end of the 20th century, following a boost from the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair,…
ID Number:2000.107.113.12.01
Date:1978
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Liberty Orchards employee David Firth pouring candy into cooling tray, Cashmere, WA, August 1978
Liberty Orchards was founded in the early 20th century by Armenian immigrants and brothers-in-law Mark Balaban and Armen Tertsagian. The family grew apples and pears, but storage challenges stimulated the development of candy products, notably Aplets and Cotlets, versions of Eastern Mediterranean Turkish delight. By the end of the 20th century, following a boost from the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair,…
ID Number:2000.107.113.12.02
Date:1978
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Inmates at work at McNeil Island Penitentiary, July 1947
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.17.02
Date:1947
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Inmates working in cannery at McNeil Island Penitentiary, October 1942
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.19.02
Date:1942
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Women making cupcakes at Langendorf bakery, Seattle, September 1934
This photo shows women preparing cupcakes in the Seattle plant of Langendorf Bakery. One woman is packing the finished cupcakes into a box marked "Langendorf Royalets . Six for 15¢."
ID Number:2000.107.165.07.01
Date:1934
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Baker at Gai's Seattle French Baking Company, May 1981
Italian immigrant Giglio Gai opened New Home bakery at 20th Avenue South and South Jackson Street in 1931, selling French bread baked in a brick oven. The family business became Gai's Seattle French Baking in 1941, and was the top specialty-bread baker in the state. After brothers Phil and Henry Gai took charge in the 1970s and 80s, Gai's diversified…
ID Number:2000.107.165.07.02
Date:1981
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Employees leaving Cudahy Food Company, Seattle, August 28, 1981
In this image Mike Powers waves farewell as he and his co-workers, Patty Powers (also his wife) and Ellen Wilson, leave after their last shift at the Cudahy Packing Company plant on Airport Way South. The Cudahy packing business employees were being replaced with non-union workers at lower rates of pay after the company was sold to management and renamed…
ID Number:2000.107.171.28.01
Date:1981
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Crowd and wild Rainier stampede at Fat Tuesday parade, February 19, 1977
Crowds jammed the Pioneer Square area for Seattle's first Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras) celebration, February 1977. Among the costumed participants was a stampeding herd of wild Rainiers, as seen in the popular Rainier Beer commercials. The five-day event was peaceful during the day but got very unruly at night. Caption information source: The Seattle Times, February 21, 1977.Caption information also…
ID Number:2000.107.172.18.03
Date:1977
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Employees watching awards ceremony at Fisher Flouring Mills, Seattle, September 8, 1944
The Fisher Flouring Mills was one of the first industrial businesses to open on Harbor Island, located in Seattle's Elliott Bay at the mouth of the Duwamish waterway, after construction of the artificial island was completed in 1909. In 1926, founding brothers Orin Wallace Fisher (1891–1979) and Oliver David Fisher (1875-1967) began a radio station (now KOMO and part of…
ID Number:2000.107.172.34.05
Date:1944