coveralls
date: label: date made
content: Around 2005
notes: label: Description
content: Brewers at Anchor Brewing Company donned these white coveralls when they brewed. Wearing this distinctive outfit was a point of pride for employees of this historic business in downtown San Francisco, California.
label: Description
content: From 1965 to 2010, Anchor Brewing Company was owned by Fritz Maytag III. Born in 1937, Maytag grew up in Iowa, where his father ran the Maytag Washing Machine Company. Later, he moved to northern California to attend college and graduate school at Stanford University. In 1965, restless and yearning for new direction, Maytag jumped at the chance to purchase San Francisco’s historic but struggling Steam Beer Brewing Company (later, Anchor Brewing Company).
label: Description
content: With his entrepreneurial roots and zeal for science, Maytag revitalized the brewery. He perfected the brewery’s recipe for steam beer, an effervescent style that had originated in nineteenth-century San Francisco, and brewed European styles—porter, barleywine, pale ale—then unfamiliar to many Americans.
label: Description
content: As a self-taught brewer and savvy entrepreneur, Maytag inspired many who dreamed of opening their own small breweries. Historians consider Anchor Brewing Company to have been the first post-Prohibition microbrewery. Microbreweries, brewpubs, and “craft” breweries proliferated throughout the nation in the 1970s, 1980s, and beyond.
place: label: place made
content: Honduras
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content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
label: Exhibition
content: Food: Transforming the American Table
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Fritz Maytag
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0258.01
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0258.01
label: accession number
content: 2017.0258
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coveralls
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: polyester; cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 67 3/4 in x 20 in; 172.085 cm x 50.8 cm
label: Measurements
content: sleeves: 24 3/4 in; 62.865 cm