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Germania Building
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Elevated night view of the eight story Germania Building, which is illuminated with a multitude of individual electric light bulbs outlining the windows and other architectural details. The trapezoidal building has four domes at the corners. A statue of "Germania" stands on a pediment at the fourth floor level and lifts an illuminated torch in her right hand. A small triangular building facing the front of the Germania Building is named, appropriately, The Triangle, and advertises the Cream City Brewing Co. on large signs at roof level. There are brick buildings on the right with signs for "Leather and Findings," "Western Bottlers Supply Co.," and "Beckerman & Mayer Mfgrs of Cloth Hats and Caps."
1896
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Germania Building
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Brumder Building
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A halftone print copy of a photograph of George Brumder's 1873 three story brick building at 286-288 West Water Street. Brumder and his family lived on the second floor. As noted in the caption, Ge...
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...
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...
Brumder Building
1895
View from street towards a streetcar passing in front of the 1872 Brumder building located, according to a note of the reverse of the photograph, "on N. E. corner of Plankington [sic] Ave. and Kilb...
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...
