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 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