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Image of Seattle Ad Club postcard, 1912
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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
Image of Olympia Brewery letterhead, June 16, 1909
Ephemera

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
Image of Wm. Hunt & Co. business card, 1904
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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
Image of Seattle Fish Co. voucher, December 23, 1902
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
Image of Alaskan Liquor Company advertisement, circa 1912
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Alaskan Liquor Company advertisement, circa 1912

The Alaskan Cafe was opened on July 1, 1909, in the Arctic Club building at the corner of Third and Jefferson in Seattle, by owners Charles Berryman and Ludovico Dallagiovanna. The image of a dog sled found in the center of the ad shown here is from stained glass piece hung over the entrance to the barroom at the Alaskan…
ID Number:2018.3.3.139
Date:Circa 1912
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Oral history interview with Tim Kennedy, July 7, 2003

Interview with Tim Kennedy, the founder and general manager of Tim's Cascade Style Potato Chips, conducted by Helen Divjak in Seattle for the Washington Workplace Oral History Project on July 7, 2003. The company is a subsidiary of Pinnacle Foods, a packaged foods company which is a subsidiary of Conagra Brands. In 2003, Tim's won the American Culinary Institute's Gold…
ID Number:2019.35.7.11
Date:2003
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Oral history interview with Gwen Bassetti, March 31, 2004

This March 2004 interview is with Gwen Bassetti, founder of the Grand Central Bakery in Seattle, and was conducted by Julie Kerssen for the Agriculture Oral History Project. Bassetti describes running a bread, jam and vegetable stand on Lopez Island, opening The Bakery sandwich shop in the recently-renovated Grand Central Building in Pioneer Square in 1972, and founding the Grand…
ID Number:2019.35.8.1
Date:2004
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Oral history interview with Barry Bettinger, April 9, 2004

This is April 2004 interview with Barry Bettinger, owner of Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream, was conducted by Julie Kerssen for the Agriculture Oral History Project. Bettinger describes his responsibilities at the ice cream business, from management and bookkeeping to the hands-on work of making ice cream, as well as working on the business’s upcoming move to a larger space in…
ID Number:2019.35.8.2
Date:2004
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Oral history interview with Goldie Caughlan, February 4, 2004

This 2004 interview is with Goldie Caughlan, Nutrition Education Manager at the Puget Consumers Co-op (now PCC Natural Markets) in Seattle, and was conducted by Julie Kerssen for the Agriculture Oral History Project. Caughlan considers the intersecting stories of her interests in the socio-economic and environmental aspects of hunger, food, and nutrition; the history and evolution of the PCC; and…
ID Number:2019.35.8.4
Date:2004
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Oral history interview with David Lake, January 21, 2004

The interview of David Lake conducted by Julie Kerssen for the Agriculture Oral History Project on January 21, 2004. The interview begins with Lake’s description of how and why he got into winemaking, including his education, his early work in the wine business in Europe, and his becoming a Master of Wine. He describes the state of grape-growing and winemaking…
ID Number:2019.35.8.8
Date:2004
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