Rainier Brewing Company Advertisements and Other Materials 1935-1998

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Rainier Brewing Company Advertisements and Other Materials 1935-1998

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Items from the Rainier Brewing Company in Seattle, mainly advertising and marketing materials.

3 boxes, 3 linear feet; plus oversize posters

eng,

Museum of History & Industry Sophie Frye Bass Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6372020

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Sick, Emil, 1894-1964

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Sicks' Rainier Brewing Co.

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Rainier Brewing Company

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The Seattle Brewing and Malting Company, located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle, was founded in 1893. Its plant was the largest brewery west of the Mississippi by the early 1900s, and with ensuing additions it became the sixth largest in the world by 1912. The company's Rainier Beer was popular throughout the West, but when Washington went dry in 1916, the brewery went idle. After Prohibition was repealed, Fritz Sick and his son Emil bought the brewery and the rights to u...