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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.
Photograph

International Model A-4 Truck with Trailer in front of Iowa State Capitol Building

Date: 06 28 1933
Description: International Model A-4 semi-tractor with sleeper cab and trailer parked in foreground, with the Iowa State Capitol Building in the background. The truck w...
Photograph

International Coca-Cola Delivery Truck

Date: 06 12 1928
Description: Driver delivering cases of bottled Coca-Cola (soda) to a residential neighborhood in an International delivery truck.
Photograph

A&W Root Beer Stand

Date: 09 12 1931
Description: A&W Root Beer Stand at 900 South Park Street, with employees in uniforms posing inside and in front of the building.
Photograph

International K-5 Truck with Bottle Body

Date: 1941
Description: Man delivering beverages to the Silver Swan Inn with an International K-5 truck. The truck was equipped with a 161 x 76 bottle body. Photograph was taken f...
Painting

Flersheim's Whisky Distillery and Cattle Farm

Date: 1858
Description: Friedrich Flersheim immigrated from Mecklenburg to Illinois in the early 1850s, and after farming for a time built this distillery on the Black River in Wi...
Poster

Milwaukee Wine Importer Ad

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Description: Chromolithographed advertising poster of the Herman Toser Co., of Milwaukee, importers of wines and liquors. The poster depicts a young Italian woman in tr...
Postcard

Schlitz Palm Garden

Date: 07 03 1886
Description: Hand-colored postcard of the interior of the Schlitz Palm Garden. Located on N. 3rd Street, south of W. Wisconsin Avenue, the Schlitz Palm Garden opened on...
Photograph

Watkins Beverage Company

Date: 08 16 1926
Description: An International Model 63 truck parked ouside the Watkins Beverage Company building. A sign on the truck reads: "Gold Springs Ginger Ale; Every Swallow Pur...
Photograph

Canada Dry Bottling Company Plant

Date: 08 19 1949
Description: Exterior view of the Canada Dry Bottling Company plant at 3313 University Avenue.
Photograph

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...
Postcard

Von Stiehl Winery

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Description: Color photographic postcard of the exterior to the Von Stiehl Winery building. The Italianate structure was built in 1868 on what is now called South Water...
Photograph

Pabst Blue Ribbon Truck

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Description: Pabst Blue Ribbon truck with storage box built by the Ideal Body Company.
Print

Northern Pale Beer Label

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Description: Label for Northern Pale brewed by Northern Brewing Company. The label depicts a lake scene with evergreen trees in the background and the round Northern Be...
Photograph

Apple Cider Making

Date: 1960
Description: Louis Suttner and another man make apple cider outdoors.
Photograph

Nestle Food Condensery

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior of the Nestle Food Condensery plant.
Print

Schlitz Advertisement

Date: 1906
Description: Schlitz advertisement copied from the "Milwaukee Press Club Annual." The image features an African man holding a Schlitz advertising sign. Underneath the i...
Photograph

Truck at Fairgrounds

Date: 06 19 1925
Description: Line drawing of a truck at a fairground. A delivery man is carrying a case of soft drinks, and a boy is standing on the left and watching him. In the backg...
Photograph

Coca-Cola Delivery Truck

Date: 08 31 1927
Description: View across road towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a Coca-Cola delivery truck parked along the opposite curb.

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