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Interior View of The Anchor Tavern

Date: 1930
Description: Interior view of the bar, with eight bar stools. Signs behind the bar include "Coca-Cola," "Grain Belt Beer," "Goebel," and "Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer."
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A "Beer-Bar" at a Displaced Persons Camp

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Description: Refugees patronizing a "beer-bar," run by invalids at a Displaced Persons camp in Germany.
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Schlitz Palm Garden

Date: 07 03 1896
Description: Elevated view of waiters and customers in the Schlitz Palm Garden. The idea of the garden was borrowed from Germany where beer gardens were common. It open...
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Dog Clearing Bar Table

Date: 11 1946
Description: Four men playing cards at a table with a fifth man seated on a radiator observing at left. In the foreground, a dog clears an empty beer bottle from the ta...
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The Brau Haus

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Description: Interior of the Brau Haus, a German-American Rathskeller. The view includes a counter, tables, and chairs, and decorative beer steins hang from the ceilin...
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Tavern Interior

Date: 1932
Description: Interior view of a tavern with one man behind the bar and two men wearing hats standing at the bar holding bottles of beer. On the shelves behind the bar a...
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J. Auermuller Restaurant and Saloon

Date: 1902
Description: Exterior view from unpaved street of a group of men enjoying mugs of beer while standing at the front entrance of J. Auermuller Restaurant and Saloon. Two ...
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Barman — Otto

Date: 1932
Description: Otto the barman from the perspective of a person on other side of the bar whose hands are shown reaching for eleven mugs of beer. The establishment is Zum ...
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Interior of Bar

Date: 1925
Description: The bartender Art Gerth stands behind the bar of a tavern located at the corner of Twelfth and Chambers. A glass of beer stands on the bar. Behind the bar...
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The Union House Tavern

Date: 1900
Description: The Union House Tavern, known as Schulkamp's Corner Saloon, 2601 East Washington Avenue at Milwaukee Street. A group of men are standing on the porch holdi...
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Park Hotel Club 22 Bar

Date: 02 12 1936
Description: Park Hotel Club 22 bar with six stools and "Heileman's Old Style Lager" sign.
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Carl Bandle

Date: 02 1978
Description: Carl Bandle is the operator of the Bear's Den.
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Ice Cream Being Sold at a Displaced Persons Camp

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Description: Ice cream being sold outside of a "beer-bar" at a Displaced Persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors of the...
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Club Chanticleer

Date: 05 29 1935
Description: Club Chanticleer, exterior view across road from the south, with a Heileman's Old Style Lager beer sign suspended from posts on the lawn in front. The sign...
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Marathon Mountain

Date: 06 21 1917
Description: View across water towards the 4,462-foot Marathon Mountain at midnight. Houses and establishments are along the shoreline. A bar is labeled, "The Commerce,...
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At the Barrel In

Date: 07 01 1977
Description: Barrel In customers toasted the old owner, Margaret Udovc, and new owner, John Lacher, as the two shook hands.
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Bartender Serving Patrons

Date: 08 18 1949
Description: "Bartender Rita Koecher serves patrons: Russ Bandlow, Les Beck, & (unknown)."
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Bar and Bartenders

Date: 1886
Description: Saloon interior of two bartenders standing behind the bar. On the bar is a variety of glassware and bottles. On the wall behind the bar are three large mir...
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Bar in Northern Wisconsin

Date: 1903
Description: Interior of a bar in Northern Wisconsin. Two bar patrons are pictured standing in front of the bar, with a bartender posing behind them. The back of the ca...
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Post-Pagoda Rewards for Sid and Friends

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Description: Sid and his friends celebrating at a restaurant after installing the roof for the pagoda in Sid's backyard. Russell Pratt Mecalf is 2nd from right raising ...

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