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This file appears in: Brewery Workers, Bosses and Consumers
Brewer was a locomotive fireman for Omaha Railroad Shops who lived at 720 W. Armstrong (built in 1886).
Date: September, 2013
Photo by: Kimmy Tanaka
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…