• Collection: Brewing
IC-Daily-Republican.1884-08-14.Riots.jpg

A collection of eyewitness accounts concerning the Iowa City Beer Riots, which began during the trial of local brewers Conrad Graf and John Dostal for having violated the state's new Prohibition law by selling beer on July 4, 1884, the day the law…
IC-Post.1881-04-15.Englert-Brewery.Crop.jpg

translation of ad: "The City Brewery of Englert & Rittenmeyer is confident that it will once again solidly maintain its long-standing distinguished reputation by virtue of the excellent quality of its product. Its beer is commonly recommended by…
IC-Volksfreund.1874-12-18.Dostal-Great-Western.jpg

translation of ad: "J.P. Dostal, Great Western Brewery, maker of the finest beer in Iowa City and the whole region. I warmly recommend my brewery to the public. All orders from in and out of town will be processed promptly. J.P. Dostal"
Blattner Brewery_Oskaloosa.jpeg

Illustrated image of brewery in Mahaska County, Iowa from 1875 atlas, as well as image of proprietor Blattner's "city garden."
Andreas1875.Magnus-Brewery.Crop.jpg

Illustrated image of Christian Magnus's Eagle Brewery in Cedar Rapids. The caption states that this is "the largest and only first class building of this kind west of the Mississippi."
englertoffice.jpg

Clarence and John M. Englert relax c. 1920 in the office of the Englert Ice Co., located in the former Englert Brewery. On the wall hangs the portrait of their father John J. Englert, who together with his brother-in-law Frank Rittenmeyer assumed…
English Language Commentary on Prohibition_11July1884.pdf

German-language newspaper includes English-language editorial denouncing prohibition as historic attack on liberty and return to barbarism.
Fremdgeborene und eingeborene Buerger_23May1884.pdf

Article bemoaning potential prohibition as of a piece with longer-lineaged nativist attacks on the civil rights of German Americans.
Belehrung fuer Temperenzler_21March1884.pdf

Editorial from German-language paper concerning temperance.
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