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GUIDE TO THE BREWERY SLIDE COLLECTION

COLLECTION NUMBER:
C019.

COLLECTION TITLE:
Brewery Slide Collection.

DATES OF MATERIAL:
ca. 1870-1943.

EXTENT:
65 slides: b&w; 35 mm.

LOCAL CONTROL NUMBERS:
Original negative number noted on each slide.

REPOSITORY:
San Diego Historical Society
Booth Historical Photograph Archives
P.O. Box 81825
San Diego, CA 92138
1-619-232-6203

RESTRICTIONS:
Open for research.

COPYRIGHT:
For permission to reproduce or publish, contact the curator of the Booth Historical Photograph Archives of the San Diego Historical Society. Reproduction or publication of any part of this collection must include the following information next to the image(s) or in a special section of credits: Brewery Slide Collection, San Diego Historical Society, Booth Historical Photograph Archives.

GENERAL NOTES:
Arrangement: original order maintained. The slides are reproductions of original negatives from various San Diego Historical Society photograph collections, including many from the Guy Sensor Collection. The original negative number is noted on each slide. Other title: Brewery Show.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE:
This slide presentation was compiled by David Williams around 1985 to document the San Diego area brewing industry from its establishment to World War II. It focuses primarily on the Aztec Brewing Company, Mission Brewing Company, and San Diego Brewing Company. The selected images show buildings, beer wagons, equipment, workers, signs, billboards, and saloons.

SUBJECTS INDEXED:
Aztec Brewing Company (San Diego, Calif.)
Mission Brewing Company (San Diego, Calif.)
San Diego Brewing Company.
Brewing industry -- California -- San Diego.
Bars -- California -- San Diego.

CONTENTS LIST:
SlideOriginal negativeDescription
Box 1
180:2822Philadelphia Brewery, exterior view, 1874
2Sensor 6-474Billboard at Aztec Brewing Company, [1943?]
3Sensor 6-455Aztec Brewing Company Famous ABC beer neon sign, 1943
4Sensor 6-454Aztec Brewing Company Famous ABC beer neon sign, 1943
5Sensor 6-493Architectural drawing of Aztec Brewing Company remodeling plan
6Sensor 6-457Aztec Brewing Company, exterior view
7Sensor 6-478Aztec Brewing Company victory garden
8Sensor 6-461Aztec Brewing Company boilers
9Sensor 6-472Aztec Brewing Company pumps
10Sensor 6-477Aztec Brewing Company workers sorting bottle caps
11Sensor 6-475Aztec Brewing Company bottle cap feeders
12Sensor 6-460Aztec Brewing Company bottling line, 1943
13Sensor 6-469Aztec Brewing Company rathskeller, with caption: Aztec Brewing Company softball team, 1936 Champions of San Diego …
14Sensor 6-458Aztec Brewing Company bottling line
15Sensor 6-467Aztec Brewing Company rathskeller, with caption: Aztec Brewing Company's 1936 softball Champion team, players and their wives attend celebration party
1683:14663-2San Diego Brewing Company beer wagons, [ca. 1900]
1783:14663-3San Diego Brewing Company workers, 1909
186474San Diego Brewing Company, exterior view, 1914
1934Sign for [San Diego Brewing Company's] San Diego beer on Geo. H. Hill Building, 6th and F streets, 1908
20943Sign for San Diego Brewing Company's Prima beer on Geo. H. Hill Building, 6th and F streets, 1898
21Sensor 5-900Aztec Brewing Company, exterior view, 1938
2283:14535San Francisco Brewery in downtown San Diego, 1873
2383:14663-1San Diego Brewing Company, exterior view, 1909
24Sensor 6-456Aztec Brewing Company rathskeller
254590-5Mission Brewing Company, exterior view, 1913
264590-7Mission Brewing Company, exterior view with sign for Hopski, 1915
27Sensor 6-150Aztec Brewing Company workers with beer barrels, [ca. 1937]
288511San Diego Wholesale Company, 5th and K streets, with sign for Maier Brewing Company [of Los Angeles], 1922
294590-6Mission Brewing Company, exterior view, [ca. 1915]
304590-2San Diego Brewing Company beer barrels, 1914
3110534-2San Diego city and harbor with City Brewery in foreground, 1874
3216798-40H.S. Harkness with carload of airplanes arriving in San Diego, San Diego Brewing Company in background, 1911
333608San Diego Brewing Company beer wagon, 1900
3483:14663San Diego Brewing Company workers with beer wagon, [1909?]
354590-4San Diego Brewing Company, interior view, 1914
364590-3San Diego Brewing Company, interior view
374590-1San Diego Brewing Company, exterior view
Box 2
38Sensor 5-934Leo Greenbaum [alcoholic beverage distributor], exterior view with Aztec Brewing Company Famous ABC beer signs and delivery truck, 1938
39Sensor 5-934Duplicate of slide 38
40Sensor 6-524Bar and bartender with [Aztec Brewing Company] Famous ABC beer sign, [ca. 1940]
413608Duplicate of slide 33
421494-1Interior view of early waterfront bar [Union Bar?] near the foot of Market Street, 1890
438511Duplicate of slide 28
44Sensor 8-134American Agar Company [i.e. former Mission Brewing Company] building at Five Points, [ca. 1930]
451492El Paso Saloon on K Street with sign for Fredericksburg Brewing Company, 1887
461497The Hole In the Wall saloon, exterior view
471493Magnolia saloon on 6th Avenue, exterior view
481494Saloon at 6th and K streets with Fredericksburg Brewing Company sign, 1888
4916778Portrait of nine men standing in front of saloon on K Street, 1887
503875-CPortrait of U.S. soldiers in front of Rose Robinson House saloon with Fredericksburg Brewing Company sign in background, 1887
5116784Berlin House saloon, exterior view, 1887
5210474-1[City Brewery Saloon and Beer Gardens?], [ca. 1885]
5310423City Brewery, exterior view, [ca. 1870]
54948-AMarshall Higgins Building with sign for [San Diego Brewing Company's] San Diego beer, 1906
554590-7Duplicate of slide 26
564590-5Duplicate of slide 25
574590-6Duplicate of slide 29
5816798-40Duplicate of slide 32
5910534-2Duplicate of slide 31
604590-1Duplicate of slide 37
614590-2Duplicate of slide 30
624590-4Duplicate of slide 35
634590-3Duplicate of slide 36
64Sensor 6-150Duplicate of slide 27
65Sensor 34-24Fronton Palace billboard advertising [Aztec Brewing Company's] Famous ABC beer and jai alai, in Tijuana, 1930


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