File:Holsum Baking Co employees pose in front of factory, Seattle, circa 1914 (MOHAI 12982).jpg

English:

The Holsum Baking Company of Seattle incorporated in 1912, but went bankrupt just four years later amid allegations of fraud. The company was bought out by Seattle Baking Company, who ran a series of advertisements in 1921 called, "A Trip Through the Largest Modern Bakery in the Pacific Northwest." The Seattle Baking Company manufactured "Queenann," "Butter-Nut" and "Holsum" breads, and was located at 1805 South Main Street, in today's International District neighborhood. In this image employees of the Holsum Baking Company pose in front of 16 delivery wagons that are hitched to teams of horses. The factory building in the background was at Nineteenth Avenue South and South Main Street.

Handwritten on image: Donaldson Photo - Art Co. Caption information source: "Wants Holsum Company Placed Under Receiver," The Seattle Daily Times: February 20, 1916, p.27. Caption information source: "A Trip Through the Largest Modern Bakery in the Pacific Northwest," The Seattle Star, Volume 23, March 24, 1921, p. 6.

• Subjects (LCTGM): Factories--Washington (State)--Seattle; Group portraits

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Update from correspondence with MOHAI:

"that address [1805 South Main Street] is in the Central Area, not the International District. … https://web6.seattle.gov/DPD/HistoricalSite/QueryResult.aspx?ID=271509133 … describes the location at Pratt Park. It sounds like the Seattle Baking Company did use that location for a few years in the 1920s. However, the building shown in this photo was on Railroad Avenue and Massachusetts St." (emphasis mine)u