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The centerfold of a 24 page promotional booklet produced by The North American Press, founded in 1873 as The Germania Publishing Company by George Brumder (1839-1910). These two pages feature examples of the company's products, including hardware catalogs, yearbooks, pamphlets and invitations. Three advertising broadsheets promote "Pabst-ett," a spreadable cheese product made by Pabst Brewing Company during the prohibition era.
February 1928
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W0126BU
WHi 138606
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The North American Press Cover
February 1928
The embossed soft cover of a 24 page promotional booklet produced by The North American Press, founded in 1873 as The Germania Publishing Company by George Brumder (1839-1910). The booklet is illu...
Composition Book
1889
The cover of a composition book printed by the Germania Publishing Company. A label identifies the contents as "Incorporation-Papers and Minutebook, Germania Publishing Comp,y [sic]". The book reco...
Cousins
1998
Second cousins Valerie Patricia Brumder and Edward John Brumder, Jr. posing, sitting, for an informal portrait in a living room. Both are great-grandchildren of George Brumder, prominent Milwaukee ...
Folding Machine
February 1928
One page of a 24 page promotional booklet produced by The North American Press, founded in 1873 as The Germania Publishing Company by George Brumder (1839-1910). The booklet is illustrated with pho...
George Brumder, Sons and Friends
1890
An outdoor group portrait of George Brumder, sitting in a bent willow chair at far left; Dr. Herman Duemling, sitting in the center, and Julius Andrae, sitting on the far right. Duemling worked wit...
Germania Building
March 4, 1902
A crowd, including a newpaper boy on a bicycle, filling the sidewalk in front of the Germania Building on West Wells Street. There are numerous large and small American and German flags flying on t...
