204 results for: Food and Beverage Industries
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Sea-Kold Fresh Oysters cookbook, circa 1938
This cookbook contains 12 recipes for oysters, including scalloped, fried, grilled, oyster paddies, and cold oyster cocktail. The oysters were packed by the Glacier Bay Oyster Company of Seattle, and were likely gathered from Glacier Bay in Alaska. In addition to the recipes, the cookbook includes a story about the health benefits of eating oysters and describes the packing process…
ID Number:2023.14.29
Date:Circa 1938
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Smacks and Smiles, circa 1935
J.G. Fox & Company was a beverage company in Seattle in the early 20th century. The company made mixers such as sparkling water, lime rickey, and “Fox 4%,” a sparkling fruit flavored drink. This booklet lists cocktail recipes using Fox drinks, some still familiar – Martini, Old Fashioned, Mint Julep – and others less so – Claret Fizz, the Collegiate,…
ID Number:2023.14.31
Date:Circa 1935
Music, notated
There's Something Else Goes With It!
Between 1900 and 1925 Seattle was a thriving music publishing center with at least half a dozen houses printing songs. As many as 10,000 copies of each musical piece would be sold, some of them peddled from door to door. Most songs were written by amateur or professional singers, although many songs were written as "singing commercials" to promote a…
ID Number:Lib1996.28.14
Date:1907
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North Pacific Brewery, Columbia and 1st Ave., Seattle, 1874
Commercial beer brewing began in Seattle around 1854 when Antonio B. Rabbeson founded Washington Brewery; by the spring of 1864 he was advertising his porter, beer, and cream ales. On February 1, 1865, Martin Schmieg and Joseph Butterfield announced their new North Pacific Brewery, on the southwest corner of Columbia Street and Front Street (now First Avenue). Butterfield later sold…
ID Number:SHS240
Date:1874
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Carstens Bros & Dashley Meat Market employees outside store, Nome, October 1908
In 1890 German emigrant Julius August Carstens (1873-1949) arrived in Seattle with his brothers, Thomas and William. Together they founded the Carstens Brothers Meat Markets, later expanding the business into meat packing. In this image employees of the Carstens Brothers and Dashley Meat Market pose outside the shop in Nome, Alaska. In 1899 the brothers had expanded their business north…
ID Number:SHS3098
Date:1908
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William Myers and Frank Krauland in Georgetown Market, Seattle, 1911
Louis Steen (1845-1922), a butcher born in Germany, came to the U.S. in about 1867 and opened his meat market in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood on Duwamish Avenue, now Airport Way. In this image, two of Steen's employees stand in the interior of the market. William Myers, left, is listed as a meat cutter in the 1911 Seattle City Directory, and…
ID Number:SHS3643
Date:1911
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Women cleaning strawberries at Spokane Street terminal, Seattle, circa 1921
In 1921 the Port of Seattle completed the Spokane Street Terminal, with nearly 200,000 square feet of space and state-of-the-art cold storage facilities used for freezing, handling, and storing fish from Alaska and local produce until they were exported or sent to local markets. That same year, Puget Sound berry growers harvested 3,160 acres of strawberries, mainly for the processing…
ID Number:SHS7309
Date:Circa 1921
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Woodland Dairy employees and delivery cart, Seattle, circa 1912
In this image two employees of Woodland Dairy Company pose in front of their horse-drawn delivery cart. The men are identified as Frank Haberbush, left, and Harold Poole. Typed on verso: Woodland Diary Co. horse-drawn home delivery cart. driver on right - Harold Poole, on left - Frank Haberbush. ca. 1912. In Green Lake district.SHS category: Transportation - Horse Drawn
ID Number:SHS8540
Date:Circa 1912
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Bayview Brewery bottling room, 1902
The Seattle Brewing & Malting Company built its Bayview Brewery on Ninth Avenue South in 1890. The brewery's premium Rainier Beer and its other brews satisfied thirsts from the Alaska gold fields to California and across the Pacific to Asia.This photo, taken at Bayview Brewery in 1902, shows the what is probably the bottling room. Several brewery workers stand near…
ID Number:SHS9788
Date:1902
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Three delivery men with Rainier beer truck, 1905
Sometime around 1905, the Seattle Brewing & Malting Company began delivering its Rainier Beer by truck instead of horse-drawn wagon. In this photo, taken in downtown Seattle around 1905, three delivery men pose by the Rainier Beer delivery truck. The men wear leather aprons to protect their clothing. The top of the truck is piled with wooden crates for carrying…
ID Number:SHS10559
Date:1905