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| Title | Crescent Manufacturing Co. 1920 |
| Photographer | Richard Nicol |
| Date | 1920 |
| Notes | In 1888, Crescent began as a small spice business at the foot of Seneca Street, manufacturing baking powder and extracts. Like all local businesses, Crescent was adversely affected by the Great Fire of 1889 and the long national recession which followed. After the discovery of Klondike gold in 1897, Seattle became the outfitting center and the jump-off point to the far north, and Crescent grew and prospered with other local businesses over the succeeding decade. By 1916, the Crescent Manufacturing Company was one of the largest tea, coffee, baking powder and extracts manufacturers on the Pacific Coast. In 1989, the retail spice business of Crescent Foods was purchased by McCormick and Company. |
| Digital Collection | King County Museum Collections
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| Note About Ownership | This record describes one of more than three hundred artifacts, photographs and documents, submitted by members of the Association of King County Historical Organizations. The King County Collects project took place during the county's sesquicentennial in 2001, to celebrate the shared collection of AKCHO's 205 members. The information presented here is the responsibility of the AKCHO organization which submitted the item for inclusion in the project. |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions, contact The Seattle Municipal Archives, 600 4th Av. Room 104, Seattle, 98104 206-684-8353 |
| Credit Line | Seattle Municipal Archives; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import. |
