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On May 23, 1942, eighteen boys from Pierce and Kitsap Counties, members of the Future Farmers of America, were presented by Sears, Roebuck and Co. with young wiggling, squealing pure bred female pigs. The pigs came from the Carstens Packing Co. and the boys are photographed in front of the Carsten's general office. Three male pigs were also donated to the F.F.A. to be used in a "chain-litter" program. The pigs were to be bred and from each new litter, the boys were to donate 1 or 2 of the female piglets to fellow F.F.A. members. (T.Times 5/25/1942 p.12)


Future Farmers of America (Pierce County); Youth organizations--Pierce County; Swine; Sears, Roebuck & Co. (Tacoma); Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Meat industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

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Banquet at Carstens for retiring employee, O'Connell-Fagan, Denton. Emil T. Mortensen was retiring from Carstens Packing Company after 39 years. He started with Carstens in 1908 and served as floorman in the killing floor department. The entire department attended a steak dinner at the plant restaurant where Mr. Mortensen was presented a gold watch. Emil Mortensen is wearing the three-piece suit in the front row. His wife, Anna W., is next to him. Karl J. Maxwell, general manager of Carstens, is also in the front row with suit and bow tie. (T.Times, 8/25/1947, p.2)


Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Meat industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Retirements--Tacoma--1940-1950; Employees--Tacoma--1940-1950; Mortensen, Emil T.; Mortensen, Anna W.; Maxwell, Karl J.;

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A delegation of 22 business leaders from Honolulu visited the Pacific Northwest in August of 1947 to help foster trade - and support for statehood for their territory. The Tacoma Chamber of Commerce arranged a full schedule of activities for the visiting business men including a trip to the Carstens Packing Company on the tideflats where they were given a ride in Carstens' horse-drawn meat wagon. Some of the staff stood on the roof of the loading dock to get a look at the festivities. The delegation went on from Tacoma to visit Mount Rainier and Olympia. (T.Times, 8/9/1947, p.1) TPL-9602


Horse teams--Tacoma--1940-1950; Carts & wagons--Tacoma--1940-1950; Loading docks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Meat industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Commerce; Guests--Tacoma--1940-1950;

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A group of Hawaiians visiting Carstens' plant, O'Connell Ragan Company, Chuck Denton. This display shows the whole animals hung and in various popular cuts of meat. Ribbons connect a specific cut of meat with the part of the animal it comes from. (T.Times, 8/9/1947, p.1)


Merchandise displays--Tacoma--1940-1950; Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Meat industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Business enterprises--Tacoma--1940-1950; Commerce;

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A group of Hawaiians visiting Carstens' plant, O'Connell Ragan Company, Chuck Denton. Carstens Packing Company put on an informational display and discussion of many cuts of meat. Their display included pork, beef and lamb. Carstens was one of four firms visited during the Hawaiian business people's visit to Tacoma. They also visited Pacific Match, Western Boat Company and The Puyallup plant of Washington Packers. (T.Times, 8/9/1947, p.1)


Merchandise displays--Tacoma--1940-1950; Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Meat industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Business enterprises--Tacoma--1940-1950; Commerce; Guests;

D29111-12

A group of Hawaiians visiting Carstens' plant, O'Connell Ragan Company, Chuck Denton. A close-up view of the lamb display Carstens presented to business people from Hawaii visiting Tacoma and other Northwest location on a good will tour to learn about trade opportunities with local companies. (T.Times, 8/9/1947, p.1)


Merchandise displays--Tacoma--1940-1950; Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Meat industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Business enterprises--Tacoma--1940-1950; Commerce; Meat cutting--Tacoma--1940-1950;

D29111-2

A group of Hawaiians visiting Carstens' plant, O'Connell Ragan Company, Chuck Denton. Twenty-two Hawaiian business people were on a good will tour of the Northwest. They were hosted by representatives of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce. While visiting in Tacoma they discussed sound business policies such as the necessity for direct air service between the Northwest and Hawaii, statehood for Hawaii and a desire to know trade possibilities with the Northwest. (T.Times, 8/9/1947, p.1)


Merchandise displays--Tacoma--1940-1950; Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Sausages--Tacoma--1940-1950; Meat industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Business enterprises--Tacoma--1940-1950; Commerce;

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Dressed sides of beef hanging from hooks in a cold storage locker at Carstens Packing Co. Photograph taken in conjunction with Carsten's Open House, celebrating their 50th anniversary in the meat packing business. In 1903, Seattle butcher and German immigrant Thomas Carstens bought 12 deserted acres on the Tideflats, the former home of the old Pacific Meat Company's plant, and began setting up what would become the largest meat packing plant on the Pacific Coast. The company eventually branched out into three processing plants: Tacoma, Seattle & Spokane. It was a huge operation that raised its own livestock, slaughtered and processed it and sold it in their own retail outlets. The company founder died in 1931 and his sons, Thomas and Philip, took over the business until they sold it in 1954 to Hy-Grade Food Products Corp. of Detroit. Hy-Grade closed the plant in 1990, citing it as out dated and not complying with EPA standards. TPL-8123


Merchandise displays--Tacoma--1950-1960; Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Meat industry--Tacoma--1950-1960;

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Exterior view of large Carstens Packing Co. plant taken in mid-August of 1926. The meat packing firm was located at 1623 East "J" St. in the Tideflats, now the site of the Northwest Detention Center. Carstens relocated to Tacoma in 1903 and would later be known as the largest meat packing company on the West Coast with plants in Tacoma, Spokane and Seattle. In 1926 Carstens put forth plans to build a new four-story unit to hold the sausage factory, sausage coolers, lard refinery and smoke houses, beef coolers and beef sales coolers. The company sought to replace annually older, outdated buildings with permanent reinforced concrete construction. The gradual replacement meant that no sections of the plant would be out of commission before their replacements were erected. Fires in 1914, 1916 and shortly after caused the company to incur $750,000 in losses. The replacement of wooden buildings by concrete structures would make the plant more modernized as well as fireproof. (TDL 3-27-26, p. 10-article; TNT 3-31-27, p.6-article)


Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Meat industry--Tacoma--1920-1930;

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Man standing with palomino horse at Carsten's Packing Co.


Palomino horse; Horses--Tacoma; Carsten's Packing Co. (Tacoma);

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ca. 1946. Employees at Carstens Packing company are finishing hundreds of sausages and are preparing them for curing. The woman on the farthest right is Emma Pease. The man wearing a white hat, seated third from right, is possibly Albert Knelleken. TPL-6601


Meat industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Sausages--Tacoma; Pease, Emma; Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma)--People;

D31143-10

Carstens slogan said "Only the Best in the West is Labeled --- Carstens". Carstens Packing Company were the largest independent meat packers on the West Coast. The company had three packing plants located in Tacoma, Seattle and Spokane. View of three Carstens employees enjoying the company Christmas party at the main office in Tacoma, the woman is carrying a little lamb, photo ordered by O'Connell-Ragan advertising agency.


Offices--Tacoma--1940-1950; Christmas--Tacoma; Office workers--Tacoma; Sheep; Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma)--People; O'Connell-Ragan Co. (Tacoma);

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K. J. Maxwell was the President and General Manager of Carstens Packing Company, Thomas Carstens was the Vice-President and Assistant Manager, Phillip Carstens from Spokane was also a Vice-President. W. Z. Kerr, from Seattle, was the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the company. View of Carstens employees enjoying their company Christmas party at the main office, staff members appear to be singing Christmas carols, photo ordered by O'Connell-Ragan advertising agency.


Offices--Tacoma--1940-1950; Office workers--Tacoma--1940-1950; Christmas carols; Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma)--People; O'Connell-Ragan Co. (Tacoma);

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The oldest employees at Carstens, on spec. This group of employees pose in front of one of Carstens delivery trucks.


Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Meat industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Employees--Tacoma--1940-1950;

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A group of Hawaiians visiting Carstens' plant, O'Connell Ragan Company, Chuck Denton. Three pigs are included in the display of meat at Carstens for the visitors from Hawaii. Pork cuts from the animal are clearly connected by ribbons with the carcass. (T.Times, 8/9/1947, p.1)


Merchandise displays--Tacoma--1940-1950; Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Meat industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Business enterprises--Tacoma--1940-1950; Commerce; Meat cutting--Tacoma--1940-1950;

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O'Connell-Ragan, Carstens fleet of trucks at plant, Corey Wilbur. Carstens has added several refrigerated trucks to their fleet. They are shown lined up at the company loading platform waiting for a supply of sausage and smoked meat products. The new trucks are the first of their kind in Tacoma. They were built on Chevrolet chasis and designed by Right of Way Auto Works of Tacoma. The refrigerated units were designed by Otto Stolz and Clarence Mase at Carstens. The trucks are called "mobile sales units". ( T.Times,6/18/1947, p.7)


Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Meat industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Meat; Sausages--Tacoma--1940-1950; Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Right of Way Auto Works (Tacoma); Stolz, Otto; Mase, Clarence;

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Carstens Packing Company. Cliff Purnell (left), assistant beef man, and Morris Elyn, assistant sales manager hold up weiners. Mr. Purnell's are end-to-end while Mr. Elny's batch is wrapped with a label and side-by-side. This came about when Carstens Packing Company put a new Kartridg-Pack machine into use in mid-May 1947. (T.Times, 5/21/1947, p.7)


Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Purnell, Cliff; Elyn, Morris; Meat industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Frankfurters--Tacoma--1940-1950; Publicity;

D32090-1

Carstens Packing Company, American Red Cross, Mrs. Thomson. Carstens packing plant president Karl Maxwell accepts a certificate and poster from Henry Willis, chairman of the "Food" division of the current Red Cross drive. The certificate and poster represent the 100% subscription by the 475 employees of Carstens even before the campaign officially opened the following week. These individuals are standing in the meat wrapping section of Carstens with slabs of bacon and hams hanging behind them. The man at the far left is Scotty Murdock. At the far right is Daniel Mohn, foreman of the Smoked Meat Dept.(T.Times, 2/27/1948, p.7)


Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Maxwell, Karl J.; Willis, Henry; Meat; Meat industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Awards; American Red Cross Pierce County Chapter (Tacoma); Community Service--Tacoma--1940-1950; Charitable organizations--Tacoma--1940-1950;

D32846-3

Shot at Carsten's Packing Company, Hogans Market, Jones Building, Frank Herbert. Three men pose for their picture with a prize winning sheep. The three ribbons for the sheep were from the Northwest Junior Livestock Show.


Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Sheep; Meat industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Livestock judging--Tacoma--1940-1950; Awards;

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