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Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1984
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a large muskelunge (muskie), badge number 315 and clad in cowboy boots with spurs, that takes control with his six-shoot...
Photograph

Relaxing on Frozen Lake Mendota

Date: 01 02 1979
Description: A young man is enjoying an Old Milwaukee beer while sitting in a broken armchair on frozen Lake Mendota.
Photograph

Portrait of U.S. Navy Sailors

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Description: Portrait of two young U.S. Navy sailors sitting at a table in a tavern. There is a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes and a book of matches in front of the mu...
Photograph

Steve Boyum Sitting in Hammock

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Description: Steve, Sid Boyum's son, sitting in a hammock. Two bottles of beer are on the table in the foreground.
Poster

Union House Tavern Poster

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Description: Unfinished drawing. A man in a Civil War Union uniform is running with a mug of beer while carrying a rifle and a pack. Text reads: "Since 1858." This refe...
Photograph

Fauerbach Brewery Employees

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Description: Group portrait of brewery employees at Fauerbach Brewing Company. Most of the men are wearing coveralls and holding bottles of beer.
Photograph

Portrait at Fauerbach Brewery

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Description: A group of men posing together at Fauerbach Brewing Company. They are probably brewery employees. The man seated front and center on a barrel, holding a be...
Photograph

Calvin Korfmann and Karl H. Fauerbach

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Description: Calvin Kaufmann (left) of Stevens Point Brewery and Karl Fauerbach toast with glasses of beer. Fauerbach is holding a cigar. The photograph is autographed ...
Photograph

Christian Dick Wine & Liquor Store

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Description: Slightly elevated view of Christian W. Dick, on the left, standing behind the counter of his wine and liquor store. Cigars are in a display case in the lef...
Book or Pamphlet

Miller Brewing Song Book Page

Date: 1895
Description: Composite art page from a booklet of verses about Miller Beer. Images include a woman at top left who is perhaps working with hops, captioned: "Original Mi...
Photograph

40 and 8 Convention

Date: 07 15 1954
Description: Glenn Detman and John Nolin of the Sun Prairie 40 and 8 Voiture 688 giving each other a fist salute as the American Legion's fun and honor group winds up i...
Photograph

Family Barbecue

Date: 10 1955
Description: A mother and son look on as the father tends to a thick steak cooking on a portable barbecue. The boy is holding a Dachshund puppy; the mother, three bottl...
Postcard

Student Night Aboard S.S. Von Steuben

Date: 09 07 1932
Description: A group of mostly young people are sitting and standing around wooden tables, raising steins of beer while posing for a group portrait. Nearly all of the g...
Photograph

Robert Spitzer at Bulington Spitzer Picnic

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Description: Robert Spitzer standing outdoors with a man and two women.
Photograph

Schlitz Brew House

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Description: View of the brew house of the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. Two men are standing in the background. On the right is a drawing of hops, and a banner that ...
Photograph

The Brewery and the Brewer

Date: 1961
Description: Elevated view of the brewing kettles at the Pabst Brewery. A brewery worker is walking up the stairs in between the kettles.
Photograph

Tom and Penny Wittnebel Wedding

Date: 09 17 1987
Description: Group of people sitting at the bar. Left to right are: Jim Wittnebel (Tom's brother), John Rawlins (brother-in-law), Ron Kliest (brother-in-law), Dick Witt...
Historical Object

Heileman's Old Style Lager Beer Label

Date: 1992
Description: A beer label featuring Heileman's Old Style Lager and Heileman Brewing Company, incorporating a drawing in the center labeled: "A Scene of Monks Brewing". ...

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