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| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Card from Madison Dry League pledging support to those who seek to eliminate saloons in the city of Madison. The organization's slogan was, "A happy, sober... |
| Community: | Watertown |
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| County: | Dodge |
| Historic Name: | Garden Homes Tavern |
| Reference Number: | 95886 |
| Ever wonder why beer is so popular in Wisconsin? Wisconsin history is full of breweries and beer. |
| Date: | 05 15 1933 |
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| Description: | Jennie Justo with hat in hand, is embraced by her mother, Lena Justo, as she leaves for a year in the Milwaukee jail for being the alleged owner of a stude... |
| Date: | 05 15 1933 |
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| Description: | Jennie Justo of 921 Spring Street in the Greenbush, wearing a hat, says goodbye to her mother, Lena Justo, as she leaves for a year in the Milwaukee jail. |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | Two stickers promoting Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) with a drawing of a car with a martini glass in front of it and a circle-backslash symbol (proh... |
| Read about the brewing industry, the temperance movement, and the effects of prohibition in Wisconsin. |
| A Popular Speaker Sways Opinion |
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| Discover the connection between P.T. Barnum and the 1853 statewide referendum on liquor sales. |
| Community: | Watertown |
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| County: | Jefferson |
| Historic Name: | C. & J. Dobbrantz Building |
| Reference Number: | 80203 |
| Community: | New Glarus |
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| County: | Green |
| Historic Name: | NEW GLARUS BREWERY |
| Reference Number: | 230438 |
| Date: | 03 15 1933 |
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| Description: | Donald Huseby, office manager of the Fauerbach Brewery, receiving from Herman Lochner, police reporter for the "Capital Times," an order for the first case... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Political placard that reads "St. John Fanatics and Shot-Gun Democrats Take Back Seats." Below that is a rule, then the text "The above is one of the motto... |
| Community: | Stoughton |
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| County: | Dane |
| Historic Name: | Axel and Dagmar Mortenson House |
| Reference Number: | 124506 |
| Community: | Madison |
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| County: | Dane |
| Historic Name: | John G. Wooley House |
| Reference Number: | 75636 |
| Date: | 04 25 1933 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of delegates to the 18th amendment repeal convention. Text on back of print reads: "Delegation to the Convention for Ratification of the 21s... |
| Date: | 04 03 1933 |
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| Description: | Four men are standing in the tank room at Fauerbach Brewing Co. One of the men is turning a valve. The photograph was taken to mark the modification of the... |
| Date: | 05 09 1976 |
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| Description: | An unusually tall door (actually a stack of smaller doors) in the Brechheimer Brewing Company ice house building next to 132 East Wilson Street. In 1976 it... |
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| Description: | One-page menu for konditorei, or Sunday afternoon coffee and pastry, at the Barber's Closet, a bar located in the Hotel Washington, 636 W. Washington Avenu... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Blumer's Golden Glow Beer, 'It's the After Glow', Blumer Products Co." The center of... |
| Lawyer and Temperance Advocate |
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| Discover the history of temperance advocate Eugene Wilder Chafin |
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