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Entrance to the Schlitz Palm Garden

Date: 07 03 1886
Description: The ornate entrance to the Schlitz Palm Garden. Located on N. 3rd Street, south of W. Wisconsin Avenue, the Schlitz Palm Garden opened on July 3, 1886 and ...
Photograph

Yahara River

Date: 1897
Description: View along shoreline of the Yahara River, a small building along the shoreline near a road on the left. The Malt House is in the far background, prior to t...
Photograph

Gettelman Brewery

Date: 1880
Description: The brewery was built by George Schweickhart after he came to the city in 1856. He purchased three acres of land on the then Watertown Plank road, now just...
Photograph

Melm's Brewery

Date: 1870
Description: Large brewery in background behind railroad tracks. On the right are smaller buildings. On the left is a small hill with ladders, fences, rocks, and plant ...
Photograph

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...
Print

Pabst Brewing Company Advertisement

Date: 1891
Description: Advertisement from the 1890-91 Madison City Directory. Includes Mayer's Saloon, and Pabst Bohemian keg beer, and a depiction of the brewery.
Print

Looking North from Reed Street

Date: 1860
Description: Image drawn by Franz Hölzlhuber of early Milwaukee settlement with a horse-drawn carriage, as well as industry and a railroad. The text on the image reads:...
Photograph

Potosi Brewery

Date: 1886
Description: Exterior view of the Potosi Brewery at about the time Adam Schumacher took over the operation. Children and adults can be seen near a fence and in horse-dr...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Potosi

Date: 1884
Description: Sanborn map showing the main street of Potosi, Wisconsin, with an inset for the Potosi Brewery.
Photograph

The Leinenkugel Brewery

Date: 1898
Description: Elevated winter view of the Leinenkugel Brewery seen "from top of Mill." Originally called "Spring Brewery," Jacob Leinenkugel opened his brewery in 1867 i...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol Building and Environs

Date: 1862
Description: The third Wisconsin State Capitol (the second in Madison), from Governor Farwell's Octagon House, probably early in 1862. Also visible in the downtown are ...
Manuscript

Schlitz Bewing Company Articles of Association

Date: 12 19 1873
Description: The first page of the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company Articles of Association.
Manuscript

Schlitz Bewing Company Articles of Association, Page 2

Date: 12 19 1873
Description: The second page of the Joseph Schlitz Bewing Company articles of association.
Photograph

Gund's Brewery, La Crosse

Date: 1890
Description: A large group of Brewery workers posing outside of Gund's Brewery in La Crosse. In the front of the group two men are seated at a table with a large stein ...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Fort Atkinson

Date: 09 1884
Description: Sanborn map of Fort Atkinson including Barrie, Germany, and North Water Streets.
Print

The Fermenting Cellar

Date: 1885
Description: Engraved image of two men working in a cellar full of wooden barrels filled with fermenting beer.
Print

Boiling the Beer

Date: 1885
Description: Engraved image of a man adding ingredients from a barrel to a boiling vat of beer.
Print

In the Beer Vault

Date: 1880
Description: Engraved image of three men in a dark room examining kegs of beer by candlelight.
Map or Atlas

Official Map of Brown County, Wisconsin

Date: 1870
Description: This 1870 map of Brown County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities, villages and post offices, land ownership, roads, rai...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map Detail of Catfish Creek Area

Date: 1885
Description: A detail of a Sanborn map including Catfish Creek and Westport Road by Lake Mendota.

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