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Crescent Foods, Inc. was a Seattle, Washington, spice and flavorings company founded in 1883 that was bought by McCormick & Company in 1989.

Earliest history

Crescent's earliest incarnation was a spice business operated in a Seattle store. Six years after its creation came the Great Seattle fire, and then the economic depression of 1893 which the company struggled through.

Business recovered in 1897 with the discovery of gold in Alaska. Seattle became the jumping off point for the Klondike Gold Rush as the last city between the continental U.S. and the gold fields of the north.

Mapleine

Crescent's best known product was Mapleine,^[1] an imitation maple flavoring that became popular during the Great Depression to create a table syrup that substitutes maple syrup.^[2] Crescent had introduced Mapleine at the Puyallup Fair in 1908,^[1] and exhibited it prominently at the 1909 Alaska–Yukon–Pacific (AYP) Exposition. A Coast magazine issue promoting Seattle for the AYP included an article by and about Crescent boasting that it had "spread the fame of Seattle throughout the Western hemisphere" and "made Seattle famous—and blessed among millions of lovers of maple sweets."^[3]

An early enforcement action of the United States Pure Food and Drug Act in 1909 concerned a shipment of Mapleine confiscated in Chicago. The case was United States of America v. Three Hundred Cases of Crescent Mapleine^[4] in which it was found that the product was misleadingly labeled to represent actual maple extract. The case was cited as a precedent for the United States Supreme Court's 1916 decision in United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola.^[5]

Centennial, 1983

When the company's centennial was near, the owners hired Archie Satterfield to produce a book based on interviews with the owners and longtime employees. "Archie produced exactly what we wanted: A conservative chronicle that we used for gifts and public relations," said Dick Weaver, Vice President.

Sale

In 1989, the retail spice business of Crescent Foods was purchased by McCormick & Company.^[6] Mapleine flavoring is still manufactured by McCormick, under the Crescent brand name.

References

^ ^a ^b Curt Fischer (February 9, 2012), Thursday Hidden Treasure... Maple Flavoring, Museum of History and Industry, archived from the original on March 18, 2014, retrieved 2012-10-16
^ James R. Warren (January 1, 2000), "Crescent Manufacturing Company", HistoryLink, Seattle: History Ink, Mapleine was the company's signature product for much of the twentieth century. Cash-strapped housewives used it to make a substitute for maple syrup during the Depression of the 1930s, and it remained popular with cooks and bakers for decades.
^ "Fame of Mapleine is international", The Coast, XVIII (3): 203, September 1909, retrieved 2012-10-16
^ Notice of Judgement No. 163, Food and Drugs Act (PDF), United States Department of Agriculture (NIH archives), February 10, 1910, archived from the original (PDF) on January 13, 2013, retrieved October 16, 2012
^ SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 562 1916.SCT.297 , 241 U.S. 265, 60 L. Ed. 995, 36 S. Ct. 573 UNITED STATES v. COCA COLA COMPANY OF ATLANTA / ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (Schaffer Library of Drug Policy), May 22, 1916
^ "Seattle Historical Sites Search Result - Department of Neighborhoods (DON)".

External links

Crescent brand Mapleine at McCormick & Company
Crescent Mfg. Co. in 1916 at 93 Yesler Way. Seattle Municipal Archives.
Guide to the Collection on the Crescent Manufacturing Company

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[mohai-1] Curt Fischer (February 9, 2012), Thursday Hidden Treasure... Maple Flavoring, Museum of History and Industry, archived from the original on March 18, 2014, retrieved 2012-10-16

[2] James R. Warren (January 1, 2000), "Crescent Manufacturing Company", HistoryLink, Seattle: History Ink, Mapleine was the company's signature product for much of the twentieth century. Cash-strapped housewives used it to make a substitute for maple syrup during the Depression of the 1930s, and it remained popular with cooks and bakers for decades.

[3] "Fame of Mapleine is international", The Coast, XVIII (3): 203, September 1909, retrieved 2012-10-16

[4] Notice of Judgement No. 163, Food and Drugs Act (PDF), United States Department of Agriculture (NIH archives), February 10, 1910, archived from the original (PDF) on January 13, 2013, retrieved October 16, 2012

[5] SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 562 1916.SCT.297 , 241 U.S. 265, 60 L. Ed. 995, 36 S. Ct. 573 UNITED STATES v. COCA COLA COMPANY OF ATLANTA / ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (Schaffer Library of Drug Policy), May 22, 1916

[6] "Seattle Historical Sites Search Result - Department of Neighborhoods (DON)".

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+{{short description|American spice and flavorings company}}
-{{Orphan|date=February 2009}}
+[[File:Crescent Foods building on Maynard Ave in Seattle in 1983.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Crescent Foods warehouse on Maynard Avenue, Seattle, in 1983]]
-'''Crescent Foods, Inc.''' had a history that spanned more than 100 years, starting in 1883. From modest beginnings in a young but growing [[Seattle]] to regional, national, and international sales that ended in the 1980s with the sale of the company, its history is a rich one.
+'''Crescent Foods, Inc.''' was a [[Seattle, Washington]], [[spice]] and [[flavoring]]s company founded in 1883 that was bought by [[McCormick & Company]] in 1989.
-==Earliest History==
+==Earliest history==
+[[File:Seattle - Crescent Manufacturing Company - 1900.jpg|thumb|Crescent Manufacturing Company in 1900]]
-Crescent's earliest incarnation was a small spice business operated in a small Seattle store serving a small market. Not long after its creation came the [[Great Seattle Fire]] and the economic depression of 1893 which the company struggled through with the ingenuity and persistence that would become its trademark through many lean periods.
+Crescent's earliest incarnation was a spice business operated in a Seattle store. Six years after its creation came the [[Great Seattle fire]], and then the economic depression of 1893 which the company struggled through.
-Luckily for the company and Seattle, the year 1897 brought relief and booming business in the form of the discovery of gold in [[Alaska]]. As thousands of men, women, and children traveled to the [[Yukon]] lured by the grand tales of riches, Seattle became the jumping off point for the rush as the last city between the continental [[United States|U.S.]] and the great [[gold]] beyond.
+Business recovered in 1897 with the discovery of gold in [[Alaska]]. Seattle became the jumping off point for the [[Klondike Gold Rush]] as the last city between the continental U.S. and the gold fields of the north.
+===Mapleine===
+[[File:Mapleine1909.jpg|thumb|right|1909 advertisement for Mapleine]]
+Crescent's best known product was Mapleine,<ref name=mohai>{{citation|title=Thursday Hidden Treasure... Maple Flavoring|url=http://www.mohai.org/explore/blog/item/1850-maple-flavoring|publisher=[[Museum of History and Industry]]|date=February 9, 2012|author=Curt Fischer|accessdate=2012-10-16|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318165242/http://www.mohai.org/explore/blog/item/1850-maple-flavoring|archivedate=March 18, 2014}}</ref> an [[Maple syrup#Imitations|imitation maple flavoring]] that became popular during the [[Great Depression]] to create a [[table syrup]] that substitutes [[maple syrup]].<ref>{{Historylink
+|title = Crescent Manufacturing Company
+|article = 2006
+|author = James R. Warren
+|date = January 1, 2000
+|quote=Mapleine was the company's signature product for much of the twentieth century. Cash-strapped housewives used it to make a substitute for maple syrup during the Depression of the 1930s, and it remained popular with cooks and bakers for decades.}}</ref> Crescent had introduced Mapleine at the [[Puyallup Fair]] in 1908,<ref name=mohai/> and exhibited it prominently at the 1909 [[Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition|Alaska–Yukon–Pacific (AYP) Exposition]].  A ''Coast'' magazine issue promoting Seattle for the AYP included an article by and about Crescent boasting that it had "spread the fame of Seattle throughout the Western hemisphere" and "made Seattle famous—and blessed among millions of lovers of maple sweets."<ref>{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0LARAAAAYAAJ&dq=mapleine&pg=RA1-PA203|title=Fame of Mapleine is international|journal=The Coast|volume=XVIII|number=3|date=September 1909|page=203|accessdate=2012-10-16}}</ref>
+An early enforcement action of the [[Pure Food and Drug Act|United States Pure Food and Drug Act]] in 1909 concerned a shipment of Mapleine confiscated in Chicago.  The case was ''United States of America v. Three Hundred Cases of Crescent Mapleine''<ref>{{citation|url=http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/fdanj/bitstream/123456789/37758/9/fdnj00163.pdf|publisher=United States Department of Agriculture (NIH archives)|date=February 10, 1910|title=Notice of Judgement No. 163, Food and Drugs Act|access-date=October 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113062349/http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/fdanj/bitstream/123456789/37758/9/fdnj00163.pdf|archive-date=January 13, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> in which it was found that the product was misleadingly labeled to represent actual maple extract. The case was cited as a precedent for the [[United States Supreme Court]]'s 1916 decision in ''[[United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola]]''.<ref>{{citation|title=SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 562 1916.SCT.297 , 241 U.S. 265, 60 L. Ed. 995, 36 S. Ct. 573 UNITED STATES v. COCA COLA COMPANY OF ATLANTA / ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT|date=May 22, 1916|url=http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/legal/l1910/united_states_v_coca_cola.htm|publisher=SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (Schaffer Library of Drug Policy)}}</ref>
 == Centennial, 1983 ==
-When the company's [[centennial]] was near, the owners hired [[Archie Satterfield]] to produce a book based on interviews with the owners and longtime employees.  "Archie produced exactly what we wanted: A conservative chronicle that we used for gifts and public relations, said Dick Weaver, Vice President.
+When the company's [[centennial]] was near, the owners hired [[Archie Satterfield]] to produce a book based on interviews with the owners and longtime employees.  "Archie produced exactly what we wanted: A conservative chronicle that we used for gifts and public relations," said Dick Weaver, Vice President.
 ==Sale==
-In 1989, the retail spice business of Crescent Foods was purchased by [[McCormick & Company]].
+In 1989, the retail spice business of Crescent Foods was purchased by [[McCormick & Company]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web6.seattle.gov/DPD/HistoricalSite/QueryResult.aspx?ID=2147012005|title = Seattle Historical Sites Search Result - Department of Neighborhoods (DON)}}</ref> Mapleine flavoring is still manufactured by McCormick, under the Crescent brand name.
 ==References==
+{{reflist}}
-*[http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2006 Crescent Manufacturing Company at HistoryLink.org]
+==Further reading==
+*{{cite book|asin=B0006YBVMQ|authorlink=Archie Satterfield|title=Crescent, 100 years|last=Satterfield|first=Archie|url=http://www.archiesatterfield.com/books_for_organisations_and_families_93703.htm|publisher=Crescent Foods|access-date=2012-11-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205020401/http://www.archiesatterfield.com/books_for_organisations_and_families_93703.htm|archive-date=2012-02-05|url-status=dead}}
 ==External links==
+{{Commons category|Crescent Manufacturing Company}}
-* [http://www.mccormick.com/ McCormick & Company]
+* [https://www.mccormick.com/spices-and-flavors/extracts-and-food-colors/extracts/mapleine-imitation-maple-flavor Crescent brand Mapleine at McCormick & Company]
-* [http://www.archiesatterfield.com/ Archie Satterfield]
+* [http://clerk.seattle.gov/~scripts/nph-brs.exe?S1=93+yesler+way&S2=&S3=&l=20&Sect7=THUMBON&Sect6=HITOFF&Sect5=PHOT1&Sect4=AND&Sect3=PLURON&d=PHO2&p=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fclerk.seattle.gov%2F~public%2Fphot1.htm&r=1&f=G Crescent Mfg. Co. in 1916] at 93 Yesler Way. Seattle Municipal Archives.
+* [http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24139/ Guide to the Collection on the Crescent Manufacturing Company]
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+[[Category:1989 disestablishments in Washington (state)]]
+[[Category:Food and drink companies disestablished in 1989]]
+[[Category:Food and drink companies established in 1883]]
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