Description: Photograph of a Hoster Brewery delivery truck, ca. 1910. The L. Hoster Brewing Company was founded on S. Front Street in Columbus, Ohio, in 1836. The original owners were businessman Louis Hoster along with Jacob Silbernagel and G. M. Herancourt, whom Hoster later bought out. The company continually increased beer production until they were putting out over 300,000 barrels a year by the turn of the century. In 1904 Hoster joined a consolidated group of Columbus breweries to form the Hoster-Columbus Associated Breweries Co., whose German-style beers remained popular until the company was shut down in 1919 due to Prohibition. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC0837_001
Subjects: Breweries; Brewing industry; German Americans; Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Alcoholic beverages; Businesses;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

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
 

Description: Employees of the Christian Moerlein Brewery, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, ca. 1850-1859. Christian Moerlein was born in Truppack, Bavaria, in 1818. He immigrated to the United States in 1841, eventually settling in Cincinnati in 1842. In 1853, Moerlein established a brewery in Over-the-Rhine, a predominantly German neighborhood in Cincinnati. In its first year of operation, the Christian Moerlein Brewing Company produced one thousand barrels of beer, but only a decade later, the brewery was producing more than twenty-six thousand barrels of beer per year. Moerlein Brewing Company continued to operate after Moerlein's death in 1897, but the brewery closed its doors with the enactment of Prohibition in 1920. Moerlein was reintroduced in Cincinnati in 1981 and is still in production today. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04144
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor; Brewing industry; Breweries
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This 4 by 5.5-inch (10.16 by 13.97 cm) portrait of brewer Felix Steinle appeared in A Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen and Van Wert Counties, Ohio, published by A. W. Bowen of Chicago in 1896. The volume is 909 pages long and measures 8 by 10.5 inches (20.32 by 26.67 cm). Steinle was born in 1847 in Baden, Germany, where he learned the beer brewer's trade. After coming to the United States in 1868, he lived in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. In the late 1870s, he established the Fremont Brewing Company. In 1883, he purchased the Delphos Brewing Company in Delphos. He reorganized and purchased new equipment to increase the brewery's output and produce ice. In 1896, the company produced 7,000 barrels of beer and 3,600 tons of ice. During Prohibition, the company stopped producing beer, but sold ice and non-alcoholic beverages. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om580_876000_001
Subjects: Business and Labor; Immigration and Ethnic Heritage; Brewing industry; Ice industry
Places: Delphos (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

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)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1900, this photograph shows the front of the Hoster Brewing Company building at 760 Harmon Avenue in German Village in Columbus, Ohio. Hoster Brewing Co. was founded in 1836 and was producing 300,000 barrels per year in the early 20th century. However, the brewery closed in 1919 due to the Eighteenth Amendment which established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages. In the 1990s, Hoster Brewing Co. reopened as a brewery and full service restaurant, but closed in 2002 with the diminishing popularity of microbreweries in Columbus and the opening of many small restaurants in the area. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC837_002
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Breweries; Brewing industry; Buildings; Businesses
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1900, this photograph shows the back of the Hoster Brewing Company building at 760 Harmon Avenue in German Village in Columbus, Ohio. Hoster Brewing Co. was founded in 1836 and was producing 300,000 barrels per year in the early 20th century. However, the brewery closed in 1919 due to the Eighteenth Amendment which established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages. In the 1990s, Hoster Brewing Co. reopened as a brewery and full service restaurant, but closed in 2002 with the diminishing popularity of microbreweries in Columbus and the opening of many small restaurants in the area. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC837_003
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Breweries; Brewing industry; Buildings; Businesses
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the Capital Brewery in Columbus, Ohio, a plant associated with Born and Company, a longtime brewer in Columbus. The entablature inscription reads "C Born 5th 1859" on the left, "1887" in the center, and "C Born 13th 1864" on the right. Established in 1859, Born and Co. operated on South Front Street near downtown Columbus, in an area that is still known as the Brewery District. The company operated until Prohibition was enacted in 1919, and around the turn of the century had an annual capacity of 100,000 barrels of beer. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC837_004
Subjects: Breweries; Brewing industry; Columbus (Ohio); Buildings; Businesses
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an advertisement for the Hoster-Associated Breweries Company in Columbus, Ohio, with the slogan "Something to crow about." The Hoster Brewing Company was located at 760 Harmon Avenue in Columbus's German Village neighborhood. The brewery was founded in 1836 and was producing 300,000 barrels per year in the early 20th century. In 1904, Hoster consolidated with three other large Columbus brewing companies--Born and Co., Schlee and Columbus Brewing Company--to form the Hoster-Columbus Associated Breweries. The company operated until Prohibition went into effect in 1919. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: VFM5036
Subjects: Breweries; Brewing industry; Advertisements; Businesses
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

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