Christian Heurich collection, 1844-2001 (bulk 1866-2001).

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Christian Heurich collection, 1844-2001 (bulk 1866-2001).

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Heurich Brewery records (1873-1956) consist of account books; correspondence; brewery physical plant and outbuilding blueprints; advertisements; clippings; photographs; and correspondence. The correspondence provides evidence of the company's record on hiring African Americans and changes in brewing equipment. A subseries of publications relates to brewery history, prohibition and temperance, brewing equipment, and unionism. Heurich family papers, 1844-2000 (bulk 1866-2000), consists of subseries on genealogy and autobiography; personal papers of Christian, Amelia, Karla, and Gary Heurich; photographs of travel and family members including Amelia Schnell Heurich, Mathilde Daetz Heurich, and Donna Keyser; Bellevue Farm property records, photographs, and clippings; and publications related to the family and family recipes. This series also contains audiotapes, phonograph recordings and videotapes about the Heurich family and house. Heurich house papers, 1903-1991, consists of photographs; biographical material about and correspondence concerning the house's architect, John Granville Meyers; specifications; building permits; drawings; designs by August Grass and the Huber Brothers; floor plans; furnishing inventories; appraisals; and garden and outbuilding records and photographs. This series also includes oral histories with Andrew Bell, Deborah Currier, Karla Heurich Harrison, Charles Jacobsen, Paul Muir, and Alberta Victoria Young. Secondary sources in this series feature house tour guides; studies about the house and its servants, technology, specific rooms in the house, historical fireproofing techniques, and architect's specifications; and technical and mechanical systems information.

9.1 cubic ft.

Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7397164

Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

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Jacobsen, Charles W.

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Christian Heurich Brewing Company (Washington, D.C.)

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Bell, Andrew

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Young, Alberta Victoria

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Huber Brothers

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Currier, Deborah

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Meyers, John Granville, 1834-1902

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Muir, Paul

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Grass, August

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Heurich, Christian, 1842-1945

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German American brewer and civic leader, of Washington, D.C. Christian Heurich (1842-1945), was born in Haina, Germany, and emigrated to Baltimore in 1866 to join his married sister. Later, he traveled to Chicago to work in a brewery and to Kansas, returning to Baltimore in 1868. Heurich worked for breweries there until 1872 when he and partner Paul Ritter leased Schnell's brewery and tavern on 20th Street, N.W., between M and N Street, in Washington, D.C. Within a year,...

Heurich family

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