Seattle’s National Meat Company opened at 318 Main Street in 1902. According to an article in The Seattle Sunday Times, the facility consisted of “a well-appointed and attractively kept main floor and basement,” and its two delivery wagons “promptly deliver to all parts of the city.”
In this image, Frank Jobson stands with his staff members in the retail shop’s interior. National Meat did both retail and wholesale business in fresh, salted and smoked veal, beef, mutton, and pork. Several varieties of poultry can also be seen.
Handwritten on verso: Grandfather, Frank Jobson - manager of the market between 1895-1905, old National Meat Market, Seattle, Wa SHS category: Stores
Caption information source: The Seattle Sunday Times, February 7, 1904, p. 67.
ID Number: SHS10674
Date: circa 1902
Physical Description: 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard: sepia ; 13.5 x 10.5 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.
