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John Gund Bottling Department

Date: 1890
Description: Brewery workers, posed in front of stacked beer barrels. Pictured (2nd row, far right) is Louis Schreiber (1861-1923) who immigrated to Wisconsin from Bava...
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Patrons and Bartender at Chet's Tavern

Date: 1941
Description: Two patrons and bartender at Chet's tavern. The bartender is pulling bottles of Schlitz beer out of an International No. 4 De Luxe dry type beverage cooler...
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Children Feeding a Fawn

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Description: Two young children feeding a fawn at Trout Lake.
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Revelers Celebrating the End of Prohibition

Date: 1933
Description: Men and women celebrating the end of Prohibition, around a table with bottles of various alcoholic beverages. They are holding a sign that reads: "In Compl...
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Feeding young Fawn

Date: 1950
Description: A fawn suckles a meal from a bottle held by a young girl inside the cage.
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Woman Nursing Lambs with Bottles

Date: 1946
Description: Mrs. Floyd French of Newton, Iowa feeds two orphaned lambs using beer or soda bottles. A Farmall tractor is in the background. According to the original ca...
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International A-4 Coca-Cola Truck

Date: 1930
Description: Delivery man unloading Coca-Cola (soda) bottles from his International A-4 truck with steel bottlers body. The truck was owned by the Midwest Dairy Company...
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Two Mayors at the Fair

Date: 1941
Description: Mayor Carl Zeidler of Milwaukee and Mayor Leo J. Promen of Fond du Lac at the Wisconsin State Fair. Zeidler is sipping Coca-Cola from a bottle and Promen i...
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Four Men Playing Cards

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four men sitting at a table playing cards, smoking cigarettes and ...
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Friends Drinking Milk

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Description: A young boy and girl pose together as they take their bottles of milk at school.
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Man Feeding Fawn

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Description: A man in a plaid jacket is feeding a bottle of milk to a fawn.
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Man Driving a Liquor Truck

Date: 1917
Description: A man is sitting in the driver's seat of an International truck owned by P.C. Kern. The truck is filled with barrels and bottles of wines and liquors and i...
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Mount Zircon Spring Water Company

Date: 1917
Description: Four men pose around an International truck, probably a Model H, owned and operated by the Mount Zircon Spring Water Co. The truck is loaded with cases and...
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Men Gather Near Beverage Tent

Date: 1919
Description: A group of men stand at a makeshift bar under a beverage tent where crates from Golden Grain Juice Company and Anheuser-Busch from St. Louis, Missouri, lin...
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Man Washing Bottles at Pharmacy

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Description: Man washing and filling glass bottles at the Brenneche and Bergmann Pharmacy.
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Men with Bottles and Gun

Date: 1924
Description: Two men standing in front of two cars, one pointing a handgun at the ground and the other looking at the camera. Each man is holding a bottle, possibly ful...
Postcard

Fathers and Sons Drinking

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Description: Studio portrait of two fathers and their sons holding drinks in front of a painted backdrop. In the front row, from left to right, are Jacob Birrenkott of ...
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High Rock Transport Truck

Date: 1930
Description: Man driving an International High Rock Beverage truck loaded with bottles of soda. The text on the truck reads: "High Rock-The Food To Drink" and advertise...
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Four Men Drinking Around a Table

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Description: Studio portrait of four well-dressed men posed around a table drinking beer in front of a painted backdrop.
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Gentile Bottling Company Trucks

Date: 08 10 1926
Description: Two men are posing sitting in the driver's seats of two International Model S trucks loaded with "carbonated beverages" from the Gentile Bottling Company o...

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