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Emil Sick, Seattle, ca. 1938
Emil Sick, Seattle, ca. 1938
TitleEmil Sick, Seattle, ca. 1938
PhotographerWebster & Stevens
Dateca. 1938
CaptionBusinessman Emil Sick bought the Seattle Indians baseball team in 1937 and renamed it the Seattle Rainiers. He also started work on a new steel and concrete baseball stadium in Rainier Valley, south of downtown. Sick's Seattle Stadium opened in June 1938. Sick was the founder of Sick's Century Brewery.
NotesHandwritten on sleeve: Mr. Sick of Century Brewing Co.

Caption by MOHAI staff.
SubjectsBusiness people--Washington (State)--Seattle; Brewing industry--Washington (State)--Seattle; Baseball--Washington (State)--Seattle; Cigars--Washington (State)--Seattle; Smoking--Washington (State)--Seattle
Personal NamesSick, Emil
PlacesUnited States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Digital CollectionMuseum of History & Industry Photograph Collection
Image Number1983.10.4849.1
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Credit LinePEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved
RepositoryMuseum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI)
Repository CollectionPEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection
TypeImage
Physical Description1 nitrate negative: b&w; 8 x 10 in.
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3.
Photographer's Reference Number139507
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