"Anton Altenburger gestorben"
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("Anton Altenburger dies") represents the practice of Local 97 in creating a memorial page for deceased members in the Minute Book.
Date: September 24, 1908
Image credit: Photo by Dave Riehle, document from the Minnesota Historical Society Collections
This file appears in: Brewery Workers, Bosses and Consumers
Brewery Workers, Bosses and Consumers
German workers and German bosses had a monopoly on brewing beer in St Paul, as they did almost everywhere in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As historian Gary Brueggeman has explained (“Beer Capital of the State-St Paul’s…