Overview of the Collection
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Repository Name:
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Museum of History &
Industry
Sophie Frye Bass
Library
2700 24th Avenue East
Seattle, WA 98112
Phone: 206-324-1126
URL: http://www.seattlehistory.org
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Collection Number:
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1999.64
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Creator:
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Rainier
Brewing Company
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Title:
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Rainier Brewing
Company Advertisements and Other Materials
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Dates:
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1935-1998 (inclusive)
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Quantity:
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2 boxes
2 linear feet
plus oversize posters
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Languages:
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Collection
materials are in
English.
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Summary:
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Items from the Rainier Brewing Company
in Seattle, mainly advertising and marketing materials.
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Location of Collection:
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15a.3.4
5a.4.2
Library Annex VI.a.17
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Historical Note
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 After Prohibition was repealed, Fritz Sick and his son Emil bought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 use the Rainier brand, expanding their operations
as they became increasingly successful. G. Heileman bought the brewery in 1977;
it then had a string of owners finally ending with the Stroh Brewing Company in
the mid-1990s. The Rainier brand struggled in the 1980s and 1990s, despite a
creative and popular advertising campaign. When Stroh's left the beer business,
a company called General Brewing bought the recipe and the rights to the
brand.
Content Description
This collection mainly consists of advertising and marketing materials
from the Rainier Brewing Company, including broadcast ads, print pieces
(including posters) and miscellaneous promotional materials.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information The collection was donated by the Stroh Brewery Company in 1999.
Separated Materials These materials are part of a donation that also included a number of
artifacts. These artifacts are cataloged and stored separately by MOHAI's
Collections Department.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access The collection is open to the public by appointment.
Restrictions on Use The Museum of History & Industry is the owner of the materials in
the Sophie Frye Bass Library and makes available reproductions for research,
publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from MOHAI
before any reproduction use. The museum does not necessarily hold copyright to
all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may
require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.
Preferred Citation Rainier Brewing Company Advertisements and Other Materials, Museum of
History & Industry, Seattle
Subjects
| Sick,
Emil, 1894-1964 |
| Sicks'
Rainier Brewing Co. |
| Seattle
(Wash.) |
| Advertising -- Washington
(State) -- Seattle |
| Beer -- Washington (State)
-- Seattle |
| Posters -- Washington
(State) -- Seattle |
| Video recordings --
Washington (State) -- Seattle |
Detailed Description of the Collection
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Series 1:
Advertisements and Other Paper
Materials
Located on shelf 15a.3.4
Advertisements, marketing materials, table signs, and other
promotional items created by the Rainier Brewing Co. This series also contains
two magazines as well as the memoirs of the company's onetime owner, Emil Sick.
Sick was also the owner of the Seattle Rainiers baseball team.
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Container(s)
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Description
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Dates
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1999.64.44:
Table signs, poster, scorecard
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undated |
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1999.64.55:
Stock certificate ledger
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circa 1935-1937 |
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1999.64.59:
Henry Weinhardt promotional
brochure (2 copies)
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1997 |
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1999.64.60:
Henry Weinhardt porter and amber
ale brochure (2 copies)
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circa 1997 |
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1999.64.61:
Henry Weinhardt blackberry wheat
ale brochure
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circa 1997 |
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1999.64.62:
Emerald City Ale brochure
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1990s |
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1999.64.63:
Emerald City Ale ad slicks
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undated |
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1999.64.64:
Rainier Ale 22-ounce bottle
brochure (2 copies)
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circa 1993 |
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1999.64.67:
Rainier Brewing Co. recycling
program information sheet (2 copies)
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undated |
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1999.64.71:
Rainier Draft advertising box
(includes video)
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undated |
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1999.64.75:
Brewers
Digest magazine
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1968 November |
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1999.64.77:
Fine
Lettering, Illuminating & Heraldry by Jeannie Rodway
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1960 |
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1999.64.78:
Pacific
Coast Review magazine
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1970 October |
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1999.64.79:
Seafair guide, 40th anniversary
issue
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1989 |
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1999.64.81:
"Wild MFR" postcard (2 copies)
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undated |
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1999.64.83:
Draft Revenue Chart (bartender
training tool)
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undated |
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Memoirs of Emil G. Sick as told
to Ruth Duquet
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1971 |
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Fair Market Value Study of
Rainier Brewery (photo album)
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1979 August 20 |
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Series 2:
Videos
Located on shelf 5a.4.2
These are primarily advertising pieces. One video has TV news
coverage of an employee strike.
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Container(s)
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Description
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Dates
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Rainier Light "Belly Faces" Re-do
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1982 February 25 |
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Rainier Video Games,
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1982 March 5 |
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Rainier Beer, Trimming Hedges
(:30)
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undated |
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Rainier Beer, Seattle (:30)
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undated |
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Best of Rainier Beer
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1974-1986 |
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Rainier: Workers' Beer, Mr. Sick,
Northwest Ingredients, R2 -- New Beer
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undated |
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Rainier Brewery clips on KING 5,
KIRO 7, and KOMO 4 News
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1997 July 3 |
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G. Heileman/Rainier Draft:
"Rainier is Here -- Opener" and "Rainier is Here -- Closer
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1991 September 2 |
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Rainier RainBeer Revival Media
Highlights
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undated |
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Rainier Beer -- Frogs Croak
Rainier
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undated |
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Heckler Associates -- Concept
Development and Production Direction
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undated |
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Heckler Associates -- Rainier
Reel
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1998 March 30 |
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The Stroh Brewery Co./Rainier AC
(audiocassette)
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undated |
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Series 3:
Posters
Located in Library Annex VI.a.17
About a dozen oversize posters advertising Rainier Beer.
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