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 companies was the Seattle Cracker and Candy Company, which operated at the Union Trust Building, on the corner of Occidental Avenue South and Main Street. The Pacific Coast Biscuit Company was purchased by rival Nabisco in 1930.
In this image the Seattle employees of the Pacific Coast Biscuit Company pose together outside their factory.
Handwritten on image: Pacific Coast Biscuit Co Seattle 1918
Caption information source: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/jul/18/then-now-washington-cracker-company
ID Number: 2014.50.1
Date: 1918
Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 28 x 8 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
