204 results for: Food and Beverage Industries
Photograph
San Juan Fishing and Packing employees, circa 1935
The San Juan Fish Company opened for business in 1898 along Railroad Avenue (now Alaskan Way) on the Seattle waterfront. Later renamed the San Juan Fishing & Packing Company, it was one of Seattle's largest and most successful canneries with production facilities in several Alaskan cities. The business was acquired by New England Fish Company in 1965 and is listed…
ID Number:2011.76.2
Date:Circa 1935
Photograph
Crescent Manufacturing Company Social Association Picnic, Halls Lake, July 12, 1919
The Crescent Manufacturing Company was founded in Seattle, Washington in 1883 as Larsen Extract Company. 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, and the following year consolidated its operations in Kent, Washington.The handwritten note on this photograph…
ID Number:2011.114.84
Date:1919
Poster
Sunny Jim Raspberry Preserves poster, circa 1955
Sunny Jim Peanut Butter was founded by Germanus Wilhelm Firnstahl in 1921 after he moved with his family to Seattle from Wisconsin. Germanus and his wife Cecilia lined up their five children and selected son Lowell to be the face of their new peanut butter manufacturing company, "Sunny Jim." Despite his untimely death in 1933 in a football accident, Lowell's…
ID Number:2013.12.1
Date:Circa 1955
Ephemera
Palace Fish and Oyster Co. brochure, circa 1935
Nessim D. Alhadeff (1884-1950) was a Sephardic Jew who immigrated to Seattle in 1904 from the Mediterranean island of Rhodes. He began working in fish markets and by 1907 had set up his own market, Palace Market. Within three years he had helped his six brothers emigrate, and the growing family business was known over time as Palace Fish and…
ID Number:2013.58.15
Date:Circa 1935
Ephemera
Crescent baking powder advertisement, Seattle, 1926
The Crescent Manufacturing Company was founded in Seattle, Washington in 1883 as Larsen Extract Company. 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, and consolidated its operations in Kent, Washington in 1990.This advertisement for Double Acting Crescent Baking…
ID Number:2013.58.21.6.1
Date:1926
Ephemera
Crescent Mapleine advertisement, Seattle, circa 1925
The Crescent Manufacturing Company was founded in Seattle, Washington in 1883 as Larsen Extract Company. 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, and consolidated its operations in Kent, Washington in 1990.This poster for Mapleine features a bottle…
ID Number:2013.58.21.6.2
Date:Circa 1925
Document
Rainier Draft Beer School certificate, April 13, 1984
The certificate pictured here was issued to Rhoda P. Mueller upon completion of the Rainier Draft Beer School. Rhoda (Mueller) Stockman (b. 1950) owned the Fabulous Rainbow Tavern at 722 N.E. 45th Street in the University District from 1983-1986. A legendary Seattle nightclub, The Rainbow first opened at the same location as a beer parlor in 1936 by Frank Salvino…
ID Number:2013.87.141.1
Date:1984
Photograph
Swift Packing Company employees, September 19, 1956
In 1855, 16-year-old Gustavus Franklin Swift founded a butchering operation in Eastham, Massachusetts, and in 1875, the successful Swift and Company meatpacking business was incorporated in Chicago. In 2007, Swift & Co. was purchased by JBS USA Holdings, Inc. and continues as of 2019 as the Swift Trade Group of JBS.Around 1910, Swift & Co. built a branch meat-processing plant…
ID Number:2013.108.3
Date:1956
Ephemera
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