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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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Brewery Wagons Delivering Beer

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Description: Brewery wagons loaded with beer barrels in foreground of the Potosi Brewery.
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Schmidt and Glade Brewers

Date: 1870
Description: Group portrait of workers, a young boy and a dog outside the Schmidt and Glade Brewery posing with tools and barrels.
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Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 1885
Description: Exterior view of Fauerbach's Brewery at 651-53 Williamson Street.
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Capital Brewery

Date: 1873
Description: Elevated view of employees, along with young children, posed around a wagon loaded with barrels of beer in front of Hausmann's Capital Brewery at the corne...
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Famous Beverwyck Beer Delivery Truck and Wagon

Date: 07 24 1933
Description: International Model A-4 motor truck with a 185-inch wheel base, and a horse-drawn wagon hauling Famous Beverwyck Beer. The horse-drawn trailer contains bee...
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Cassville Brewery

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of the brewery dwarfed by the overhead bluffs. The brewery was built by William Schmitz. George Scheibl ran the brewery from 1899 until his d...
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Potosi Brewery Employees

Date: 1900
Description: Brewery employees, many of them from the Schumacher family, posing with barrels outside the brewery.
Postcard

Blatz Brewery Painting

Date: 1893
Description: Reproduction of an oil painting at the Blatz Brewing Company depicting a happy barmaid holding overflowing steins of beer as she dances atop a barrel of Bl...
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Melms-Schandein Residence

Date: 1876
Description: 462 Virginia Street. The buildings on the left are the old Melms Brewery located at the south side of the Menomonee Valley. About 1857 C.T. Melms organized...
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Potosi Brewery

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Description: The Potosi Brewery. Men can be seen standing in front of the building, and driving horse-drawn vehicles.
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Loading Brewery Barrels

Date: 07 18 1934
Description: Men loading barrels from Wagner Brewing Company onto the bed of an International truck. They are standing near a doorway to a brick building with an electr...
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Old Brewery at Potosi

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Description: An exterior view of the old brewery at Potosi. A man is walking down the street toward the building.
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T. Knapstein & Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of T. Knapstein & Company, proprietors of the New London Brewery. On the left is a rectangular image with a decorative border surrounding a man ...
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Phillip Best Brewing Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Phillip Best Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with three separate proscenium views of the Empire Brewery, the South Side Brewery,...
Postcard

Pabst Brewery Shipping Yard

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of the Pabst Brewery shipping yard showing several teams of horses hitched to wagons loaded with barrels of beer. A man holds the reins of ea...
Photograph

Potosi Barrels

Date: 1936
Description: Seven beer barrels stacked in front of a truck, outside the Potosi Brewery.
Photograph

Miller Wagon and Truck

Date: 1939
Description: The Miller Brewing wagon, filled with barrels of beer, and a Miller delivery truck. The caption on the photograph reads "1855-1939".
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Kellermeister Beer, Label

Date: 1934
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Kellermeister Beer, made by the Oconomowoc Brewing Company. Includes an image of a Ge...
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Old Heidelberg, Beer Label

Date: 1926
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Old Heidelberg Brew, Made under the formula of a famous old German brew, Val. Blatz ...

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