Brewery Collection

Papers, ongoing
Call Number: Mss - 2200

Abstract:

Collection consists of various materials relating to the Brewing industry in Milwaukee, as well as information about specific breweries in the area. The collection is arranged by series including: Brewery General Records, Place Cards, Oversize Items, and Newspaper clippings. The general records including, advertising material, histories, research notes and other miscellaneous materials. The Newspaper clippings are all on microfilm and arranged by topic or brewery.

See Also:

Pabst Brewing Company Collection, Mss-0780
Schlitz Brewing Company Collection, Mss-3200

Contents List:

Series I - Brewery General Records	Box	Folder

Beer Barrels	1	1
Beer History	1	2
Blatz, Advertising Material	1	3
Blatz, Correspondence	1	4
Blatz, Histories	1	5
Correspondence, Brewers' Regional Board, 1934	1	6
Correspondence, US Brewers' Association, 1934-1936	1	7
Correspondence, WI State Brewers' Association, 1933-1936	1	8
Gettelman Brewing Company	1	9-10
Cream Top Beer	1	10A
Gipfel Brewery	1	11
History of Brewing in Milwaukee	1	12
J. Obermann Brewing Company	1	13
Jung Brewing Company	1	14
Miller, History	1	15
Miller, Miscellaneous	1	16
Miller, Pamphlets	1	17
Milwaukee Germantown Brewing Company	1	17A
Misc. Brewery Information	1	18-20
National Brewers Conference, 1877	1	21
Oshkosh Brewing Company	1	22
Refrigerator Beer Car Box Report	1	23
Smaller Breweries, History	1	24
Sprecher Brewing Company	1	25
Whitewater Brewing Company	1	25A
Wisconsin Beverage Journal	1	26
Ziegler Brewing Company	1	27
Hantke's Brewers' School	2	28-29
The Western Brewer: and Journal of the Barley, Malt and Hop Trades, 1878-1917	2	30-33
"If Beer Returns", Readers Digest, March 1933	2	34
The Settlements Cook Book "Repeal" Recipes, 1933	2	35
Research Notes, Chronological Outline of Milwaukee Breweries	2	36
Research Notes, History of Brewing	2	37-38
Research Notes, Repeal on Prohibition of Beer	2	39

Series II - Placards Displayed to Show the Benefits Breweries Bring to Milwaukee Area

Milwaukee Breweries Help...Lighten the Property Tax Load for Milwaukeeans $1,400,000 Paid by Brewers in Milwaukee Taxes in 1949

Pacing Milwaukee's Prosperity Brewery Employment 1934-4000,1942-6000, 1949-8500

Pacing Milwaukee's Progrss Beer Production 1934-4 million barrels, 1942-6 million barrels, 1949-10 million barrels

Pacing Milwaukee's Prosperity Brewery Payrolls 1934-$5,800,000 1942-$12,500,000 1949-$35,000,000

Brewing & Milwaukee a Great City Industry Pacing a Great City's Prosperity

Milwaukee Beer Builds Milwaukee Payrolls Milwaukee Barley Maltsters Froedtert Grain & Malting Co., Riebs Co., Kurth Malting, D.D. Weschler & Sons Co., Ladish Malting, Zinn Malting Co.

Milwaukee Beer Builds Milwaukee Payrolls Milwaukee Producers Downing Box Co., Gaylord Container Corp., Inland Container

Corp., A. Geo. Schulz Co., Hummel & Downing Co.

The Farmer Too Benefits from Milwaukee Brewing 10 million bushels of premium price grains were used last year by Milwaukee breweries

Milwaukee Beer Builds Milwaukee Payrolls Over $150 million dollars per Year are Spent by Milwaukee Brewers for Goods & Services' Much of it in Milwaukee

More Than 100 Milwaukee Industries and Services Benefit From Milwaukee Brewery Operations

Milwaukee Brewers are Helping Make a Greater Milwaukee...Spending $50 million Since the War on New Construction and plant Improvement

Series III - Oversize Items	Location

Scrapbook, Clippings on the Legalization of Beer In Milwaukee, April 1933	RC 13, Shelf 9 Bulk:
Gettelman Brewing Company, Letter Record Book, 1912-1913	LC Shelf 6 Bulk:
Hantke's Brewers' School and Laboratories Brauer Manual, 1904	LC Shelf 6 Bulk:
Unidentified Brewery, Keg and Case Beer Sales Journals, 1933-1936 (5 Volumes, contains names, addresses, and amounts of beer sold)	BV Shelf 62, 68 Bulk:
Unidentified Brewery, Federal Tax and Stamp record ledger, Nov. 1933-35	BV Shelf 62, 68 Bulk:
Old Milwaukee, Capital Beer Company, Advertisement, undated	OS SM "O"
Brewery Workers Journal newspaper Sept. 1, 1906 (color cover)	OS XLG Bulk:

Series IV - Brewery Newspaper Clipping Collection (Location: Microfilm)	Roll Number

Anheuser Busch, 1933-1977	262
Best Family Brewery	257, 261
Blatz Brewery 1891-1974	257, 261
Blatz-Pabst Merger	257, 261
Blatz Brewing	262
Bock Beer, History	257, 261
Beer Output/Production	258
Brewery Expenses	257, 261
Brewery Folklore	257, 261
Brewery Clippings (In German)	257
Brewery History, general	257
Breweries, Miscellaneous Material	257, 261
Brewery Sales and Advertising	257, 258
Brewery Unions and Strikes, 1898-1974	257, 258
Brewing of Beer	257, 258
Brewery Workers Union	262
Brewing Industry	258
Breweries, general thru 1978	262
Capital Brewing, 1933-1946	262
Coors, 1976-1977	262
Farmers Brewing Company, 1933	262
Fox Head Brewing Company, thru 1933	262
Gettelman Brewery	257, 258, 262
Hartig Company, 1933	262
Heilman Brewery	261
Independent Milwaukee Brewery	257, 258
La Batt Acquisition attempt, 1964-1967	260, 261
Miller Brewing Company, 1875-1974	257, 258
Nunnemacher Distillery	258
Pabst Brewing Company, 1889-1974	257, 258, 260
Repeal of Prohibition, 1933	260
Schlitz Brewery	258
Schlitz Brewery, 1964-1974	261
Schlitz Brewery, 1874-1886	259
Schlitz Brewery, 1949-1974	260
Schlitz Memphis Brewery	260, 261
Schlitz Expansion	260
Schlitz Warehouse Disaster, 1942	260
Schlitz Brewery Photographs	261
Small Breweries, general	261
Small local and State Breweries, general	260
Water Flouridation	258
Wisconsin Breweries	261

Series V - Photographs	Box

Blatz, Interior/Exterior	1
Blatz, Employees	1
Miller, Interior/Exterior	1
Miller, Employees	1
Miller, Advertising	1
Miscellaneous Brewing	1
Gettelman, Interior/Exterior	2
Gettelman, Employees	2
Gettelman, Wagons	2

*Also See: Schlitz Photographs Pabst Photographs