Blatz Brewing Company records, 1862-1944.

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Blatz Brewing Company. Blatz Brewing Company records, 1862-1944.

Blatz Brewing Company records, 1862-1944.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191071142

Description: The majority of the collection consists of over three hundred accounting books that document the financial history of the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company. Most of the records are from the 1880s through the early 1920s. A variety of records are included in the collection, such as general ledgers and journals, cash books, inventory books, and cash customer journals. The records trace the history of the brewery, the bottling plant, various branches, and Valentin Blatz's Estate. The Blatz collection documents the company's rapid growth in the late nineteenth century, the sale of the business in 1890, and the impact of the Prohibition movement. There is also extensive information pertaining to the beer bottling industry, including data about finances, vendors, customers, productions, product development, and sales. The records also demonstrate the complicated network of branches and depots that was in place as early as the 1880s. The collection also contains beer bottle labels that were used as note paper, engraved letterhead, invoices, and receipts from nearly 100 companies involved in business transactions with the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Finding aid available in the Archives.

340 volumes.

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries