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Pabst Advertising

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Description: Postcard entitled: "The Finished Product", depicting two bottles of Pabst beer, one partially poured into a glass, and a plate of oysters with a lemon serv...
Photograph

Milwaukee Brewery Grain Elevators

Date: 1938
Description: View across the Kinnickinnic River of the Pabst brewery grain elevator. A Schlitz building, possibly one of their grain elevators, stands behind the Pabst ...
Photograph

Pabst Malt Extract

Date: 1903
Description: Eye catching Eagle Drugstore window display for Pabst Malt Extract, "The Best Tonic". An advertisement for this product stated that it was "the greatest to...
Photograph

Low Cost Drugs

Date: 06 27 1980
Description: Exterior view of a pharmacy advertising "Low Cost Drugs." The building also has a painted advertisement for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
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Main Street

Date: 1936
Description: Slightly elevated view of storefronts on Main Street. Sign on building reads: "Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer." Child standing at pump (water pump?) Two cars parke...
Print

Milwaukee Brewers Pocket Schedule

Date: 1970
Description: Unfolded, tri-fold, Milwaukee Brewers pocket schedule with Owgust, the "barrel man" logo, Pabst Beer ad, and County Stadium seating chart.
Photograph

Alex Drives Distributing Co. Booth at ESBMA Festival

Date: 09 10 1929
Description: Alex Drives Distributing Co. booth at the East Side Business Men's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival. Featuring Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
Photograph

Tire Pile

Date: 10 13 1963
Description: A large pile of used tires near a DX gasoline sign. In the background are several grain elevators, a house, and a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer sign.
Photograph

Alex Drives Distributing Co. Booth at ESBMA Festival

Date: 09 10 1929
Description: Alex Drives Distributing Company booth at East Side Business Men's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival. The booth is featuring Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
Photograph

View from the West Bank of the Milwaukee River

Date: 07 11 1912
Description: Looking east on E. Wisconsin Avenue from the west bank of the Milwaukee River. The Pabst Building is on the left.
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General Beverage Sales Co.

Date: 09 10 1953
Description: General Beverage Sales Co., 114 N. Murray Street, with a Pabst Blue ribbon sign on the building and four trucks parked beside it. Railroad tracks run acros...
Photograph

Phillip Best Building and Matthew Brothers Store

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Description: Elevated view of the Phillip Best Building and Matthew Brothers Store, built in 1878.
Photograph

Silverford's A.I.D. Pharmacy

Date: 1938
Description: A man stands by a cooler with a bottle of Pabst beer in his hand. Bottles and cans of beer are along the wall behind him. On the right is a magazine stand ...
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Wisconsin Avenue

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Description: Street with retail shops, and automobiles along the avenue. Caption reads: "Wisconsin Ave., Oconomowoc, Wis." Some of the signs on the commercial buildings...
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Canal Street Rebuilt in Bloomington

Date: 1956
Description: View across Canal Street with the businesses that were built after the fire. Ford stepside truck is parked along the curb on the left. Businesses with thre...
Poster

The Great Fire Engine Race of America

Date: 05 1972
Description: Poster publicizing The Great Fire Engine Race of America, over Memorial Day Weekend held in Prarie Du Chien, Wisconsin. Event was co-sponsored by Ward La F...
Poster

"Go Pack Go! Go All The Way!"

Date: 12 1967
Description: A poster that was used in the Green Bay Packers' Sports Committee's "Go Pack Go - Go All the Way" advertising campaign for the 1967 post-season. On the bot...
Postcard

North Main Street Looking West

Date: 05 30 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "North Main St. looking West, Wauwatosa, Wis." Streetcars on an unpaved street with horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians. The street i...
Photograph

Storefronts on Road

Date: 1910
Description: View from dirt road, with buildings grouped on the left, with mailboxes, trees and a fence lining the road on the right. Horse-drawn carts are on the road,...
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Commercial Building in Milwaukee

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Description: Northeast corner of N. 2nd and W. Michigan streets with the James G. Brazell Printing and C.W. St. John Labor Agency businesses. A man is standing at a fru...

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