204 results for: Food and Beverage Industries
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6 Famous Pacific Oyster Recipes, circa 1955
The Pacific Coast Oyster Growers Association was established in 1930 with support from Earl Newell Steele, known to some as the "Daddy of the Pacific Oyster Industry." Born in Iowa in 1881, Steele came to Washington in 1903 initially to teach school in Olympia. Steele conducted a scientific study of the propagation of Washington's Native Olympia Oyster and pioneered the…
ID Number:2014.3.2.22
Date:Circa 1955
Photograph
Pacific Coast Biscuit Co. employees outside factory, Seattle, 1918
Initially founded in 1899 to compete against the National Biscuit Company (later Nabisco), the Pacific Coast Biscuit Company was a conglomerate of baking companies headquartered in Portland, Oregon. The company, also known as Pacific Coast, was made up of seven companies that together controlled most of the commercial biscuit and cracker business west of the Rocky Mountains. One of those…
ID Number:2014.50.1
Date:1918
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Rainier beer advertisement, 1907
Seattle Brewing & Malting Company launched Rainier Beer in 1893, and its popularity led to the brewery's ascendance to become the largest west of the Mississippi River. Rainier Beer would continue to be produced until 1916, when the brewery closed due to prohibition. In 1933 production began again with the name of the business changed to Rainier Brewing Company.Featuring a…
ID Number:2016.3.12
Date:1907
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"Exposition Brand" Sunkist lemon fruit crate label, circa 1912
he Alaska -Yukon-Pacific Exposition was held in Seattle in 1909 as a way to highlight the development of the region, and to spotlight Seattle as a gateway to Alaska and Asia. Exhibits were a major attraction of the AYPE and featured in most of the buildings on the Fairgrounds. Intended to be educational, exhibits were used to show off the…
ID Number:2016.38.1
Date:Circa 1912
Photograph
Society Candy Company employees at Mount Rainier, August 1919
From August 5th through 7th, 1919, employees of the Imperial Candy Company hiked and relaxed at Mount Rainier National Park. Here, the group members, wearing suits, dresses, and hiking attire, pose for a panoramic group photo. The top of Mount Rainier can be seen in the distance.In 1906, Samuel David McKinstry and a partner founded the Imperial Candy Company in…
ID Number:2016.53.2
Date:1919
Poster
Ballard Bitter poster, Seattle, circa 1986
Redhook Ale Brewery was established in 1981 by Gordon Bowker and Paul Shipman in a garage in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood. One of the company's most popular beers, Ballard Bitter, was first brewed in 1985, when craft beer was still a very small market. However, the popularity of Ballard Bitter soon allowed Redhook to expand operations into a former trolley barn…
ID Number:2016.95.1
Date:Circa 1986
Postcard
Seattle Ad Club postcard, 1912
The Seattle Advertising and Sales Club, or Seattle Ad Club, was started in 1909 and continues as of 2018 as the American Advertising Federation (AAF) Seattle. The club was founded by local business men in part to investigate and prevent fraudulent advertising schemes.This postcard advertises the club's monthly luncheon, to be held March 18, 1912, at the Rathskeller. This particular…
ID Number:2018.3.3.41
Date:1912
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Olympia Brewery letterhead, June 16, 1909
Olympia Brewing was founded in 1896 by German immigrant Leopold F. Schmidt (1846-1914) as the Capital Brewing Company in Tumwater, Washington. In 1902, the firm's secretary, Frank Kenney, came up with the long-used slogan "It's the Water" to promote their beer brewed with water from artesian wells. Through a series of consolidations, the company was acquired by Pabst Brewing Company…
ID Number:2018.3.3.67
Date:1909
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Wm. Hunt & Co. business card, 1904
The business card pictured here is from Wm. Hunt & Co., a local wholesale vinegar company that advertised in the Seattle Times at least from 1900-1945. William Hunt (1866-1859) was born in England and came to the U.S. about 1892. He later opened a food processing plant in the Skagit Valley. An inscription on the back of the business card…
ID Number:2018.3.3.82
Date:1904
Correspondence
Seattle Fish Co. voucher, December 23, 1902
The letter seen here was sent from the Seattle Fish Company to the Pacific American Fisheries Company on behalf of George Sayers, who was to receive $75.60 for fish that he caught on behalf of the company. The Seattle Fish Co. was operated at the time by Pacific Packing and Navigation Company, a conglomerate of salmon-canning companies that operated out…
ID Number:2018.3.3.88
Date:1902