Wooden Shoe Beer photograph Save
Description: Dated 1935-1940, this photograph shows a mustached man standing behind a bar with a mirror that runs the length of the bar and reads "Welcome" and "Auf Wiedersehen," or when we meet again. A cash register, which could have been manufactured by the National Cash Register Company, sits in the middle of the back counter. A sign for Wooden Shoe Beer hangs on the wall. It is unclear where this bar is located, though it could be in the Germantown area of Dayton, Ohio. Wooden Shoe Beer was produced by the Wooden Shoe Brewery in Minster, Ohio, in Auglaize County. Formerly known as the Star Brewery, it was renamed in 1913 to take advantage of the local Pennsylvania Dutch connection. Around 1919, the company was again renamed the Star Beverage Company, and began selling non-alcoholic drinks, due to prohibition. In 1933, Wooden Shoe Beer was reintroduced and officially changed the company name back to Wooden Shoe Brewery in 1940. Several management changes, and cost cutting beginning in 1950 affected the quality of the beer and the bar closed in 1954. The building was used as a warehouse for many years and was eventually demolished in 1990.
This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939.
View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F03_009_001
Subjects: Breweries; Bartenders; Brewing industry; Beer; Business and Labor; Ohio--History--Pictorial works
Places: Ohio
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F03_009_001
Subjects: Breweries; Bartenders; Brewing industry; Beer; Business and Labor; Ohio--History--Pictorial works
Places: Ohio
Bruckmann Brewing Company worker photograph Save
Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows a smiling man pouring a mug of Brucks beer from a keg at the Bruckmann Brewing Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. A note on the photograph's reverse reads "Drawing a mug of beer in Cincinnati brewery. Credit: courtesy of Homer Jensen." The Bruckmann Company got its start as the Frederick Bruckmann Cumminsville Brewery in 1856. During prohibition the company made non-alcoholic cereal beverages and malt tonic. When prohibition was repealed, Bruckmann was the only Cincinnati brewery that continued to make beer so they were able to ship beer at 12:01 am on April 7, 1933. Their most important brands were the Brucks Jubilee Beer, the Big Ben Ale, and the Aristocrat Cereal Beverage. After the company was sold to Herschel Condon 1949, it operated as Herschel Condon Brewing Company and shut down in 1950.
This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939.
View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F12_014_1
Subjects: Breweries--Ohio--History; Brewing industry; Beer; Business and Labor; Works Progress Administration of Ohio (U.S.)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F12_014_1
Subjects: Breweries--Ohio--History; Brewing industry; Beer; Business and Labor; Works Progress Administration of Ohio (U.S.)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
Haltnorth's Garden photograph Save
Description: Haltnorth's Garden gates at Woodland and E. 55th Street in Cleveland, Ohio, from the collection of Louis Baus. Haltnorth's Garden was a German beer garden that also hosted light opera performances in an outdoor covered theater. The signs on either side of the gate advertise regular concerts on Thursdays and Sundays, or Fridays in case of inclement weather, while the name of the proprietor, Charles Hogg, dates this photograph to between 1879 and 1887.
Baus, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 1875. He began his career as a professional photographer doing studio work before becoming a staff photographer for the Cleveland Advocate in 1911. Baus worked for the paper, which was later purchased by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for thirty-eight years until his death in 1949. He was also an avid collector of historic photographs. The Louis Baus Collection consists of over one thousand photographs mounted in eleven albums, showing historic Cleveland, the village of Zoar and Ohio covered bridges and mills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B02_A05_486
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Theaters--Ohio--Cleveland--History--20th century; Beer; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; German Americans;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Image ID: P223_B02_A05_486
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Theaters--Ohio--Cleveland--History--20th century; Beer; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; German Americans;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Haltnorth's Garden photograph Save
Description: Haltnorth's Garden gates at Woodland and E. 55th Street in Cleveland, Ohio, from the collection of Louis Baus. Haltnorth's Garden was a German beer garden that also hosted light opera performances in an outdoor covered theater. The signs on either side of the gate advertise regular concerts on Thursdays and Sundays, or Fridays in case of inclement weather, while the name of the proprietor, Charles Hogg, dates this photograph to between 1879 and 1887.
Baus, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 1875. He began his career as a professional photographer doing studio work before becoming a staff photographer for the Cleveland Advocate in 1911. Baus worked for the paper, which was later purchased by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for thirty-eight years until his death in 1949. He was also an avid collector of historic photographs. The Louis Baus Collection consists of over one thousand photographs mounted in eleven albums, showing historic Cleveland, the village of Zoar and Ohio covered bridges and mills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B02_A05_490
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Theaters--Ohio--Cleveland--History--20th century; Beer; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; German Americans;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Image ID: P223_B02_A05_490
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Theaters--Ohio--Cleveland--History--20th century; Beer; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; German Americans;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Brewery workers photograph Save
Description: Dated ca. 1930-1943, this photograph shows a brewery worker at an unidentified brewery in Ohio. A note on the photograph's reverse reads "The first Suds of repeat Saved the Brewery Worker 'People at Work + Play.'"
This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939.
View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F08_024_001
Subjects: Breweries; Bartenders; Brewing industry; Beer; Business and Labor
Places: Ohio
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F08_024_001
Subjects: Breweries; Bartenders; Brewing industry; Beer; Business and Labor
Places: Ohio
