Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2006.26.005
Accession#:
2006.26
Credit Line:
Donated by LInda Wahto.
Object Name:
Bottle
Title:
Rainer Seattle Brewery and Malting Co Beer Bottle, Amber colored
Date:
c1893—c1916
Description:
Amber colored Rainer beer bottle. Has "Rainer Seattle Brewing and Malting Company Beer" on front in raised lettering. Bottle has mold seams on both sides that end before the collar. Has a "crown cap" collar. This was popular after 1892 and remains on many bottles today (See the Antique Bottle Collector by Grace Kendrick page 47 in the museum reference)

Bottom has SUB&C Co. in raised lettering.

According to the following information this bottle could be date between 1893 and 1916.

Rainier Brewing Company (1884 — 1999) was a Seattle, Washington company that brewed Rainier Beer, a very popular brand in the Pacific Northwest. Rainier beer and the brewery date back to 1884 when Edward Sweeney established the Claussen—Sweeney Brewing Company in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle.In 1893 Sweeney's company merged with two other breweries; the new company became known as the Seattle Brewing and Malting Company. Alcoholic beverages were outlawed in Washington state in 1916 and the Rainier brand was sold to a San Francisco, California company. Three years later, alcoholic beverages were outlawed nationwide. Following the repeal of Prohibition, the brewery was purchased by Fritz and Emil Sick, who then repurchased the Rainier brand and began brewing Rainier beer in 1935. The brewery went through several names such as Sick's Seattle Brewing and Malting and Sicks Rainier Brewing Company during the 1935—1977 period. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_Brewing_Company)
Notes:
Collection donated by Linda Wahto, brought in by donor's daughter Myiia Whistler. According to Whistler, Wahto and Willette Janes would hunt bottles together. Bottles found in Treadwell/Douglas area. Some are from Myiia's grandfather's house/cabin on the Treadwell Ditch. He grew up there — they tossed garbage into the ditch. Mom/Grandma and Janes would bottle hunt up at the cabin site.
People:
Wahto, Linda
Janes, Willette
Whistler, Myiia
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