Packaging & Shipping

 

Colorful beer stamps

Tax Stamp

Washington State tax stamp for beer
ca. 1940-1950

State tax stamps for beer and malt beverages
ca. 1940-1950

Hagley Museum & Library
Pictorial Collections Department
Litchfield Collection on the History of Fatty Materials
Accession 2007.227

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Beer delivery truck

Photograph

Delivery truck
Mundorff Beverages
Wilmington, Delaware
ca. 1935

Hagley Museum & Library
Pictorial Collections Department
James Watson & Sons Company Photograph Collection
Accession 1992.213


Electric truck ad in a catalog

Trade Catalog

The modern method of transportation
Rainier Company
1903

Hagley Museum & Library
Imprints Department
Trade Catalog Collection
Call number Trade Cat .R157 1903

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Various cans of beer

Advertisement

"More and More are Saying Double-Lined Cans by National"
National Can Company

American Brewer, publication of the Master Brewers' Association of America
1936

Hagley Museum & Library
Imprints Department
Call number HD9397.A1 A5


Beer bottle ad

Advertisement

"Beer is Better in Bottles"
Owens-Illinois Glass Company

American Brewer, publication of the Master Brewers' Association of America
1936

Hagley Museum & Library
Imprints Department
Call number HD9397.A1 A5

 

 


Beer label featuring an eagle

Bottle Label

"Wiener Beer"
Eagle Brewery
D.G. Yuengling & Son
Pottsville, Pennsylvania
No date

Hagley Museum & Library
Pictorial Collections Department
Accession 1993.307


A man stands near a bottling machine

Photograph

Beer bottling plant
Staten, Island, New York 
April 17, 1942

Hagley Museum & Library
Pictorial Collections Department
Bethlehem Steel Corporation Photograph Collection
Accession 1980.300

 


Old glass beer bottles

Bottles

Hartmann & Fehrenbach Brewing Company
Wilmington, Delaware 
ca. 1900

Hagley Museum & Library
Museum Collections

 

 

 

 


Metal beer bottles in an ad

Advertisement

"The Ultra-Modern Container for Beer"
Crowntainer
Crown Cork & Seal Company

American Brewer, publication of the Master Brewers' Association of America
1940

Hagley Museum & Library
Imprints Department
Call number HD9397.A1 A5

 

 


Beer delivery cars and employees stands outside of the brewery warehouse

Photograph

Plant and delivery truck fleet
Nehi Bottling Company
Wilmington, Delaware
ca. 1935

Hagley Museum & Library
Pictorial Collections Department
James Watson & Sons Company Photograph Collection
Accession 1992.213