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 History Center
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 History Center, 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:
Slide | Original negative | Description |
---|---|---|
Box 1 | ||
1 | 80:2822 | Philadelphia Brewery, exterior view, 1874 |
2 | Sensor 6-474 | Billboard at Aztec Brewing Company, [1943?] |
3 | Sensor 6-455 | Aztec Brewing Company Famous ABC beer neon sign, 1943 |
4 | Sensor 6-454 | Aztec Brewing Company Famous ABC beer neon sign, 1943 |
5 | Sensor 6-493 | Architectural drawing of Aztec Brewing Company remodeling plan |
6 | Sensor 6-457 | Aztec Brewing Company, exterior view |
7 | Sensor 6-478 | Aztec Brewing Company victory garden |
8 | Sensor 6-461 | Aztec Brewing Company boilers |
9 | Sensor 6-472 | Aztec Brewing Company pumps |
10 | Sensor 6-477 | Aztec Brewing Company workers sorting bottle caps |
11 | Sensor 6-475 | Aztec Brewing Company bottle cap feeders |
12 | Sensor 6-460 | Aztec Brewing Company bottling line, 1943 |
13 | Sensor 6-469 | Aztec Brewing Company rathskeller, with caption: Aztec Brewing Company softball team, 1936 Champions of San Diego … |
14 | Sensor 6-458 | Aztec Brewing Company bottling line |
15 | Sensor 6-467 | Aztec Brewing Company rathskeller, with caption: Aztec Brewing Company’s 1936 softball Champion team, players and their wives attend celebration party |
16 | 83:14663-2 | San Diego Brewing Company beer wagons, [ca. 1900] |
17 | 83:14663-3 | San Diego Brewing Company workers, 1909 |
18 | 6474 | San Diego Brewing Company, exterior view, 1914 |
19 | 34 | Sign for [San Diego Brewing Company’s] San Diego beer on Geo. H. Hill Building, 6th and F streets, 1908 |
20 | 943 | Sign for San Diego Brewing Company’s Prima beer on Geo. H. Hill Building, 6th and F streets, 1898 |
21 | Sensor 5-900 | Aztec Brewing Company, exterior view, 1938 |
22 | 83:14535 | San Francisco Brewery in downtown San Diego, 1873 |
23 | 83:14663-1 | San Diego Brewing Company, exterior view, 1909 |
24 | Sensor 6-456 | Aztec Brewing Company rathskeller |
25 | 4590-5 | Mission Brewing Company, exterior view, 1913 |
26 | 4590-7 | Mission Brewing Company, exterior view with sign for Hopski, 1915 |
27 | Sensor 6-150 | Aztec Brewing Company workers with beer barrels, [ca. 1937] |
28 | 8511 | San Diego Wholesale Company, 5th and K streets, with sign for Maier Brewing Company [of Los Angeles], 1922 |
29 | 4590-6 | Mission Brewing Company, exterior view, [ca. 1915] |
30 | 4590-2 | San Diego Brewing Company beer barrels, 1914 |
31 | 10534-2 | San Diego city and harbor with City Brewery in foreground, 1874 |
32 | 16798-40 | H.S. Harkness with carload of airplanes arriving in San Diego, San Diego Brewing Company in background, 1911 |
33 | 3608 | San Diego Brewing Company beer wagon, 1900 |
34 | 83:14663 | San Diego Brewing Company workers with beer wagon, [1909?] |
35 | 4590-4 | San Diego Brewing Company, interior view, 1914 |
36 | 4590-3 | San Diego Brewing Company, interior view |
37 | 4590-1 | San Diego Brewing Company, exterior view |
Box 2 | ||
38 | Sensor 5-934 | Leo Greenbaum [alcoholic beverage distributor], exterior view with Aztec Brewing Company Famous ABC beer signs and delivery truck, 1938 |
39 | Sensor 5-934 | Duplicate of slide 38 |
40 | Sensor 6-524 | Bar and bartender with [Aztec Brewing Company] Famous ABC beer sign, [ca. 1940] |
41 | 3608 | Duplicate of slide 33 |
42 | 1494-1 | Interior view of early waterfront bar [Union Bar?] near the foot of Market Street, 1890 |
43 | 8511 | Duplicate of slide 28 |
44 | Sensor 8-134 | American Agar Company [i.e. former Mission Brewing Company] building at Five Points, [ca. 1930] |
45 | 1492 | El Paso Saloon on K Street with sign for Fredericksburg Brewing Company, 1887 |
46 | 1497 | The Hole In the Wall saloon, exterior view |
47 | 1493 | Magnolia saloon on 6th Avenue, exterior view |
48 | 1494 | Saloon at 6th and K streets with Fredericksburg Brewing Company sign, 1888 |
49 | 16778 | Portrait of nine men standing in front of saloon on K Street, 1887 |
50 | 3875-C | Portrait of U.S. soldiers in front of Rose Robinson House saloon with Fredericksburg Brewing Company sign in background, 1887 |
51 | 16784 | Berlin House saloon, exterior view, 1887 |
52 | 10474-1 | [City Brewery Saloon and Beer Gardens?], [ca. 1885] |
53 | 10423 | City Brewery, exterior view, [ca. 1870] |
54 | 948-A | Marshall Higgins Building with sign for [San Diego Brewing Company’s] San Diego beer, 1906 |
55 | 4590-7 | Duplicate of slide 26 |
56 | 4590-5 | Duplicate of slide 25 |
57 | 4590-6 | Duplicate of slide 29 |
58 | 16798-40 | Duplicate of slide 32 |
59 | 10534-2 | Duplicate of slide 31 |
60 | 4590-1 | Duplicate of slide 37 |
61 | 4590-2 | Duplicate of slide 30 |
62 | 4590-4 | Duplicate of slide 35 |
63 | 4590-3 | Duplicate of slide 36 |
64 | Sensor 6-150 | Duplicate of slide 27 |
65 | Sensor 34-24 | Fronton Palace billboard advertising [Aztec Brewing Company’s] Famous ABC beer and jai alai, in Tijuana, 1930 |