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One View of Milwaukee

Date: 1909
Description: Depicts an overweight man wearing a bowler hat drinking beer directly from a barrel. In the background beer steins are littering the ground. The caption at...
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Young Men Drinking Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio triple portrait in front of a painted backdrop: young men with hats askew, drinking beer and smoking.
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German Style Beer, Label

Date: 1933
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "German Style Beer, Peter Bub Brewery." Pictured on the label are a group of gnomes d...
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Temperance Rebus

Date: 1885
Description: Rebus from the National Temperance Advocate, 1884-1886 p.207. Solution is: "What harm can there be in a glass of beer? None, my man, in one or two. 'Tis...
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Studio Portrait of Men Drinking Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of three men smoking pipes and cigars and holding beer bottles in front of a painted backdrop. From left to right, Jacob Bowar, Herman Kals...
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Pouring Beer at the Miller Brewery

Date: 1953
Description: William R. "Bill" Kinney (1912-1978; second from left) and friends enjoy a beer at the Miller Brewery. Bill and his brother Howard Kinney owned the White F...
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Studio Portrait of Men With Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of three men smoking pipes and cigars and holding beer bottles in front of a painted backdrop. From left to right, Jacob Bowar, Herman Kals...
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Poker Players

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Description: Studio portrait of two men in front of a painted backdrop playing poker while smoking and drinking beer. The man on the left is Jacob Birrenkott, and the m...
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Three Men Playing Cards

Date: 1930
Description: Studio portrait of three men, seated at a table, playing cards in front of a painted backdrop. Each man has a bottle of beer and one man smokes a cigar. Tw...
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Three Men Drinking

Date: 1930
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three men, all seated in chairs around a table, drinking a beer from a bottle. The man on the right holds...
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Sailors in a Bar

Date: 1942
Description: Two sailors and two women are seated at a table smoking cigarettes and drinking beer, while another woman stands playing an accordion for them. Around the ...
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Men with Beer Bottles

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Description: Studio portrait of four men in hats, suit jackets, vests, and trousers. Two men are standing and two sitting around a small table, drinking from glasses fi...
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Audience for a Beauty Pageant

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Description: Formally dressed audience members are watching a beauty pageant in a smoky beer hall. The men are wearing suits with ties; the women are wearing dresses an...
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Portrait of Three Men

Date: 1930
Description: Full-length studio portrait of three men in front of a painted backdrop. Two men are standing on either side of a man in the middle who is sitting in a cha...
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Fauerbach Brewery Tavern

Date: 04 07 1933
Description: Slightly elevated view of crowd in the Fauerbach Brewery tavern at 651 Williamson Street, with men and women drinking and toasting and celebrating the end ...
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Three Men Drinking Beer

Date: 1900
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three unidentified white men dressed in bib overalls. One man is sitting in the center betwee...
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Two Men Playing Cards with Donkey

Date: 1930
Description: In a studio "gag" portrait, two men sit at a table playing cards in front of a painted backdrop. Both are showing their hands and smoking cigars. Each man ...
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Six Men and a Goat

Date: 1920
Description: Full-length studio portrait of six men, three standing and three sitting. On the left is a goat. Attached to the painted backdrop, a poster for the Calumet...
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Killdozer

Date: 02 1995
Description: Publicity photograph of the three band members of Killdozer, a Madison, Wisconsin rock band. From left to right are Bill Hobson, Michael Gerald (holding ci...
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Portrait of Two Men

Date: 1930
Description: Full-length studio "gag" portrait of two men in front of a painted backdrop. The man on the right, James Gorman, is wearing work clothes, boots and hat and...

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