226 results for: Eating and Drinking
Menu
United Airlines menu, circa 1980
The cover of this United Airlines menu features a view of Seattle highlights painted by artist Peter Hayward, showing the Space Needle, Mt. Rainier, a totem pole, and fir trees.
ID Number:2014.3.1.67
Date:Circa 1980
Menu
Northern Pacific Railway, Yellowstone Park Line menu, June 1910
This lunch menu features cold dishes for hot days, June 15 to September 15. The front cover says "Just a Bite for Lunch" and shows an apple with a bite taken out of it. Apples were frequently used on advertisements for the railroad going to Washington State.
ID Number:2014.3.1.70
Date:1910
Menu
Northern Pacific Railway, Yellowstone Park Line menu, circa 1910
This dining car menu features a "Great Big Baked Potato" on its cover. In 1909, Northern Pacific served its first oversized baked potato on their North Coast line, utilizing a special rack with spikes to cook inexpensive extra large Yakima Valley potatoes on board the train. The dish became part of Northern Pacific's marketing and even led the North Coast…
ID Number:2014.3.1.71
Date:Circa 1910
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Northern Pacific Railway, Yellowstone Park Line salad menu, circa 1920
The Northern Pacific Railway Dining Car Department issued this salad menu in June 1915. The cover shows a bunch of celery, as salads are the sole offerings.
ID Number:2014.3.1.72
Date:Circa 1920
Menu
Northern Pacific Steamship Company S.S. Victoria Christmas menu, 1902
The transatlantic ocean liner S.S. Victoria was built in Scotland in 1870 and was originally known as the S.S. Parthia. It was sold to Tacoma-based Northern Pacific Steamship Company in the early 1900s, and then ended up with the Alaska Steamship Company in 1908. This menu is for a special Christmas dinner aboard the Victoria.
ID Number:2014.3.1.73.1
Date:1902
Menu
S.S. North Sea menu, June 19, 1936
This postcard dinner menu is from a Northland Transportation Company passenger liner on the Alaska-Seattle run. An image of S.S. North Sea at Taku Glacier is on the back of the menu.
ID Number:2014.3.1.74
Date:1936
Book
Prudence Penny's Centennial Cookbook, 1963
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper published recipes and home economics advice in the Prudence Penny column, which ran from the 1930s to the 1970s. Prudence Penny was a pseudonym created by Hearst newspapers, and each local paper employed a person writing under her name. The column was written by as many as thirty authors around the country.This cookbook includes 100 recipes…
ID Number:2014.3.2.5
Date:1963
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Albers Instant Tapioca, the Delightful Quick Dessert, circa 1929
Bernhard Albers and his four brothers founded Albers Bros. Milling Company in 1895. By 1905, an Albers Bros. mill was located at the foot of Massachusetts Avenue in Seattle, where they produced several products including cornmeal and tapioca. In 1929 the Carnation Milk Products Company acquired Albers Bros. Carnation was headquartered in the White-Henry-Stuart building. The company was later purchased…
ID Number:2014.3.2.7
Date:Circa 1929
Book
Crescent Creations, 180 Alluring Recipes for Every Day Use, 1935
Featuring a richly colored illustration of a classic yellow layer cake with chocolate icing, this cookbook offers ideas for using Crescent baking powder to leaven many sweet and savory baked goods. The book also describes "Hurricake," a new method for cake baking utilizing only three steps and requiring the use of the Crescent Baking Powder. Originally located at 122 S.…
ID Number:2014.3.2.10
Date:1935
Document
New Recipes and Hostess Hints, Darigold Milk, circa 1925
The Darigold cooperative was founded in 1918 by a group of five Puget Sound dairy cooperatives as the United Dairyman's Association. The Association bought the Consolidated Dairy Products Company in 1930. The Darigold brand name was selected at a contest during a summer picnic in 1925. Darigold is currently owned by over 500 member dairy farms in Washington, Oregon, Idaho,…
ID Number:2014.3.2.11
Date:Circa 1925