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| Title | War bond sign at Home of the Green Apple Pie, Seattle, 1945 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | 1945 |
| Notes | Signs in image: August 24, 1937 - We Baked Our 1, 000, 000th Pie - We're On Our Way to Our Second Million. Buy War Bonds to Build Boeing Bombers - Seattle's Own Flying Fortress. Stacked These Pies Would Be 15 Times Higher Than Mt. Rainier Which is 14, 409 ft. Tall. 1, 436, 409 Pies Would Make a Tower 475 Times as High as the L.C. Smith Tower, Seattle's Tallest Sky Scraper. These Pies Laid Side by Side Would Reach from Seattle Over Snoqualmie Pass and Through the Apple Country, Past [C...] City - Total Distance 251 miles. These Pies Would Put a Piece of Pie in Every Dinner Pail for Every Worker in Boeing Plants in Seattle and Renton for the Next 7 Years. Our 24th Anniversary Mar. 15th 1944 - Your Patronage Has Made the Name Home of the Green Apple Pie Known All Over the Country - We Thank You - The Management. We Will Serve Butter When We Can Obtain It - Otherwise We Will Serve Oleo Margarine.
"Our Pie Record" sign begins in 1920 with 59, 800, and ends in 1943 with 90, 981; total 1, 527, 390.
Handwritten on sleeve: Mr. Crane Green Apple Pie. |
| Subjects | Food industry--Washington (State)--Seattle; War bonds & funds--Washington (State)--Seattle; World War, 1939-1945 |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.15338.2 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 safety film negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | 45-325 |
