Records of Eberhardt & Ober Brewing Company, 1883-1897.

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Records of Eberhardt & Ober Brewing Company, 1883-1897.

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This collection contains two series. Series I consists of business to business correspondence regarding supplies, payments, orders, and prices and Series II consists of receipts for goods and services including construction, beer ingredients, supplies, and employee payments. Both series are arranged by date. Some of the materials and services included in the records relate to the purchase of hops, rice, barley, grains, corn, steam engines, coal, cork, lumber, kegs, iron work, legal matters, wagons, horses, packaging, bricklayers, dry goods, and produce.

1.5 cubic ft. (3 boxes)

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University of Pittsburgh

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Ober, John Peter, 1848-1909

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Eberhadrt, William, 1844-1899.

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Eberhardt & Ober Brewing Company.

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The Eberhardt & Ober Brewing Company was established in Allegheny City, Pa. (now Pittsburgh's North Side), in 1883 by two men from German brewing families. William Eberhardt was born in Alsace, France, April 20, 1844, and emigrated with his parents to Allegheny City in 1846. Conrad Eberhardt, William's father, was a brewer in Wurtemberg, Germany and established a brewery, in his own name, in Allegheny City in 1848. He is said to be the first person to use steam power in Pittsburgh. William b...

Pittsburgh Brewing Company

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Sixty-six years after the first record of a commercial brewery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Edward Frauenheim, a German immigrant and part owner of Frauenheim, Miller Company, started the Iron City Brewery, the first American brewery to produce a lager, in 1861. By 1866, Frauenheim's reputation and Iron City Beer's quality had become recognized and the brewery outgrew its original facilities on 17th Street and moved into a four-story brick building that the company built at Liberty Avenue and 34...