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People Sitting in Car Drinking Beer

Date: 1916
Description: Three people sitting in the back seat of a parked car drinking beer and other beverages in glasses. The building behind them is the Otto Sprenger Millersvi...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Beer garden gives way to gas filling station

Date: 1925-06-08
County: Dane
City: Madison
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

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

Man Parked in Motor Truck for Breweries

Date: 1913
Description: Man in the driver's seat of an International Model M truck hauling crates of beer labeled "Grand Rapids Brewing Company" and "Petersen Brewing Company." Th...
Photograph

Midstate Grocer's Association Dinner

Date: 04 24 1950
Description: View from stage towards people sitting at long tables for the Midstate Grocer's Association dinner at Turner Hall. On display on the stage in the foregroun...
Photograph

East Main Street Looking West

Date: 03 28 1939
Description: Street view of buildings in the center of a small town. Sidewalks run along both sides of the street and automobiles are parked along the curbs. On the cor...
Photograph

Delta Sigma Pi Fraternity Purchases Sherman Tank

Date: 04 15 1958
Description: Debbie Duncan, University of Wisconsin student from Batavia, IL, christens "Rosebud I", a used 33-ton Sherman tank, with a bottle of beer at Ed's Service S...
Photograph

Effinger Brewery

Date: 1977
Description: Effinger Brewery located in Baraboo. Founded about 1870, this brewery was operating as the Stiehl Winery in 1977 when this photograph was taken. A sign on ...
Print

Pabst Brewing Company Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising for Pabst Brewing Company including an engraved elevated view of the brewery. The engraving shows several pedestrians on the sidewalks and hors...
Postcard

Schlitz Palm Garden

Date: 01 01 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Interior, Schlitz Palm Garden, Milwaukee." A very ornately decorated space with a barrel vaulted ceiling. Skylights and arched window...
Photograph

Milk Booth at the State Fair

Date: 1950
Description: The Department of Agriculture's "All You Can Drink for Ten Cents" milk booth at the Wisconsin State Fair. On the roof is a cow crafted from a bale of hay. ...
Photograph

Djemal Pascal and His Staff in Berrsheba

Date: 01 1915
Description: Djemal Pascha and his staff in Beersheba. Colonel Trommer, commander of the 8th Division. Colonel von Frankenberg, Chief of Staff of the 4th Army, and Gene...
Postcard

Emit. T. Raddant Brewery

Date: 02 06 1905
Description: Text on front reads: "Brewery, Shawano, Wis." The second Emit T. Raddant Brewing Company building, built in 1898. The brewery is six stories tall and built...
Photograph

Schlitz Palm Garden

Date: 07 03 1886
Description: The east side of the Schlitz Palm Garden at N. 3rd Street, south of W. Wisconsin Avenue. The Schlitz Palm Garden opened on July 3, 1886 and was one of the ...
Postcard

Schreiers Brewery

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Schreiers Brewery, Sheboygan, Wis." The brewery was founded in 1856 by Konrad Schreier. A fire completely destroyed the original brew...
Photograph

Highway 41

Date: 05 1939
Description: View down median of road towards a truck parked on the scales of a weigh station in the center of Highway 41 just north of the Wisconsin/Illiinois state li...
Photograph

North Main Street Looking South

Date: 03 28 1939
Description: Street view of buildings in the center of a small town. Sidewalks run along both sides of the street. Automobiles are parked diagonally on the right and al...
Postcard

Street Scene

Date: 06 06 1913
Description: Text on front reads: "St. Scene Richfield Wis." An unpaved street runs between buildings, over railroad tracks. The wheel marks in the foreground suggest t...
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Beer Barons

Date: 1885
Description: Six prominent German American brewers pose outdoors, seated around a table, for a portrait labeled "The Poterhouse [sic] Club." Well-dressed in suits and h...

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