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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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Potosi Brewery Employees

Date: 1900
Description: Brewery employees, many of them from the Schumacher family, posing with barrels outside the brewery.
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Droster Grocery and Filling Station

Date: 1940
Description: Children standing on barrels in front of Droster Grocery and Filling Station at 1438 Sherman Avenue, run by Red Whitney. The children are Whitney's nieces ...
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Pile of Metal Drums

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Description: A pile of metal drums sits in the snow next to corner of brick building. One of the drums has the words "Hello Neighbor" painted on it. Residential housing...
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Columbia Breweries Truck

Date: 05 31 1935
Description: A man holding a clipboard is standing and talking to a driver seated behind the wheel of an International C-60 truck parked in a loading area. The refriger...
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Brewery Barrels Transport

Date: 07 18 1934
Description: Men standing on a loading dock are placing beer barrels from the Wagner Brewing Company onto the bed of an International truck. A man is sitting in the dri...
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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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Man Standing on a Railroad Loading Dock

Date: 08 17 1906
Description: A man is standing on a railroad loading dock near a factory building, probably the McCormick Works. He is dressed in dark pants, a light-colored shirt, sus...
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Leisy's Beer Truck

Date: 09 20 1935
Description: A man loading barrels onto the body of an International truck owned by Leisy's Brewery as another man is looking on from a loading dock.
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Prospect Avenue

Date: 1924
Description: View down Prospect Avenue, with men sitting on a bench by the "Steponet" gas pumps in front of a storefront. A man stands on the sidewalk in front of the b...
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Bagley

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Description: View from road of a brick building under construction. Five men are posed in front near a pile of bricks. Four men are posed in the window openings on the ...
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Farmer's Market

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Description: Elevated view of the farmer's market on East Washington Avenue near storefronts. Many horse-drawn buggies and wagons are lined up on both sides of the aven...
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Exterior of the Hillsboro Brewery

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Description: Exterior view of the Hillsboro Brewery when it was operated by Joseph Buzucha in the early 1900's.
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Farmer's Course

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Description: Four men pose on and around a crude wooden platform set up in front of the Winnebago County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy. There is a barrel o...
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Crowd at Farmer's Course

Date: 1910
Description: Slightly elevated view of crowd standing closely around a platform on which a man wearing an apron stands next to a cow. A barrel and wooden pail are also ...
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Moe Hardware Store; Exterior

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Description: View across unpaved road towards a two-story building, with three men posing standing on the walkway. Identified as Moe Hardware, built in 1912 on the nort...
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Man Driving Horse-Drawn Wagon Filled with Fauerbach Barrels on Blount Street

Date: 1910
Description: Joseph Bossart driving a horse-drawn wagon loaded with 37 empty beer barrels is parked in front of the International Harvester building on S. Blount Street...
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Mower Displayed Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: Mower set up on the snow-covered cobblestones in front of a brick factory building. In the background a man is standing on the wooden sidewalk near the doo...
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Daisy Reaper in Yard at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Daisy Reaper set up on cobblestones in the foreground. In the background is a guardhouse, and larger factory buildings beyond. A barefoot boy is standing a...
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Portrait at Fauerbach Brewery

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Description: A group of men posing together at Fauerbach Brewing Company. They are probably brewery employees. The man seated front and center on a barrel, holding a be...

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