198 results for: Food and Beverage Industries
Photograph
Keystone Liquor Company signs at start of Prohibition, Seattle, circa 1916
In Washington state, Prohibition lasted from 1916 until 1933. During that time, making, selling, owning, or drinking alcoholic beverages was against the law. This photo shows farewell signs in the windows of a liquor store. Signs in image: We've Got Ours - Come In and Get Yours Before It Is Too late - Open Evenings.Handwritten on sleeve: Keystone Liquor Co.Webster…
ID Number:1983.10.12279
Date:Circa 1916
Photograph
Imperial Liquor Co. sign at start of Prohibition, Seattle, circa 1916
In Washington state, Prohibition lasted from 1916 until 1933. During that time, making, selling, owning, or drinking alcoholic beverages was against the law. This photo shows a farewell sign in the window of a liquor store. Signs in image: Imperial Liquor Co. This is the end of our sinning! Ice cream and candy for us - Help us move this…
ID Number:1983.10.12280
Date:Circa 1916
Ephemera
Washington Produce and Fruit Growers Union sales account for Fred Cyr, July 13, 1896
The Washington Produce and Fruit Growers Union, Inc., was established in 1895 as a cooperative of farmers who banded together to sell their produce to public markets and retailers rather than using established commission merchants who only paid farmers after the produce was sold.This sales account dated July 13, 1896, lists amounts and prices for strawberries received by Fred Cyr…
ID Number:1984.66.17.1
Date:1896
Document
Washington Produce & Fruit Growers Union stock certificate, July 1895
The Washington Produce and Fruit Growers Union, Inc. was established in 1895 as a cooperative of farmers who banded together to sell their produce to public markets and retailers rather than using established commission merchants who only paid farmers after the produce was sold.This stock certificate, dated July 17, 1895, gives J. B. Warren four shares in the union at…
ID Number:1984.66.18
Date:1895
Photograph
Vendor with boxes of produce at Pike Place Market, Seattle, September 23, 1983
In 1983, the National Press Photographers Association sponsored a documentary project called "Day in the Life of Washington: September 23, 1983." Photographers from the NPAA, the American Society of Magazine Photographers, and freelancers participated in the 24-hour "Dayshoot," recording the ordinary occurrences of everyday life that might take on larger significance in a historical perspective. One hundred twenty of the…
ID Number:1984.118.97
Date:1983
Photograph
Garlic vendor, Pike Place Market, Seattle, September 23, 1983
In 1983, the National Press Photographers Association sponsored a documentary project called "Day in the Life of Washington: September 23, 1983." Photographers from the NPAA, the American Society of Magazine Photographers, and freelancers participated in the 24-hour "Dayshoot," recording the ordinary occurrences of everyday life that might take on larger significance in a historical perspective. One hundred twenty of the…
ID Number:1984.118.98
Date:1983
Photograph
Fish market at Pike Place Market, Seattle, September 23, 1983
In 1983, the National Press Photographers Association sponsored a documentary project called "Day in the Life of Washington: September 23, 1983." Photographers from the NPAA, the American Society of Magazine Photographers, and freelancers participated in the 24-hour "Dayshoot," recording the ordinary occurrences of everyday life that might take on larger significance in a historical perspective. One hundred twenty of the…
ID Number:1984.118.100
Date:1983
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Kenneth Fisher, April 23, 1985
Kenneth Robinson Fisher (1906-1999) was the grandson of O.W. (Oliver Williams) Fisher, founder and owner of Seattle’s Fisher Flour Mill. Fisher built his mill, the largest in the west, on the newly constructed Harbor Island in Elliott Bay at the mouth of the Duwamish waterway, one of the first industrial businesses to open on the island. Fisher ran the business…
ID Number:1985.135.10
Date:1985
Photograph
Women workers standing in front of the Kirkland Cooperative Cannery, Kirkland, July 1939
In 1939, during the Great Depression, Washington State operated four cooperative canneries, all funded by the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA). Canneries at Kirkland and Kent served families from as far as away Everett and Tacoma. Any family with an income of less than $100 a month could bring fruit, vegetables, and meat to the cannery to preserve them for…
ID Number:1986.5.4890.1
Date:1939
Photograph
Women working at the Kirkland Cooperative Cannery, Kirkland, July 13, 1939
In 1939, during the Great Depression, Washington State operated four cooperative canneries, all funded by the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA). Canneries at Kirkland and Kent served families from as far as away Everett and Tacoma. Any family with an income of less than $100 a month could bring fruit, vegetables, and meat to the cannery to preserve them for…
ID Number:1986.5.4890.2
Date:1939