As you can imagine, there are extensive resources in the archives at my campus (uwm.edu, click on libraries, click on archives), which include many resources relating to my Brew City from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, which houses many local collections with us.   Many of the state archives' collections are online (wisconsinhistory.org).  And our campus archivists long have been unusual in putting detailed inventories online, which may point your student to a resource that really must be seen.  Milwaukee isn't that far from Indianapolis . . . but it also may be possible to link your student with one of our students here who could do some copying (perhaps for a fee or perhaps in trade, if we have a student doing Midwest research that may benefit from materials in your area?).  Also in Brew City are relevant resources nearby at the Milwaukee County Historical Society.  And I have had students interning in archives at Miller Brewing here, which has been generous in access to its materials not yet archived elsewhere, so contact with the company archivist may prove useful?  But the tour of its historic facility -- including the caves in the river valley that were a reason for locating the brewery there before refrigeration -- includes free brewski, as we say down by Mwokee, just in case your student finds a way to come this way.

Btw, one of our recent grads got a job as director and curator at the Elkhart County Historical Museum, which is think is near your campus.  Nick Hoffman also interned with the state historical society here.  And he did a lot of research on the brewing industry here as well as related industries; see part of his research on the bottling industry published in the Wisconsin Magazine of HIstory (http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:5p5sLnA0RoIJ:www.wisconsinhistory.org/wmh/archives/search.aspx%3Farea%3Dbrowse%26volume%3D91%26articleID%3D49378+wisconsinhistory.org+nick+hoffman&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us).    He may have more good advice from a recent grad student studying this topic fo a current student now doing so, and he can be contacted at [log in to unmask].

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Genevieve G. McBride, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

                                                                 
  

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Anne Foster <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hello all,

 

A graduate student in our program here at Indiana State is looking for some assistance in locating sources for her masters thesis.  I post her paragraph of inquiry below.  Resources are limited, so if you have suggestions for Midwestern sources or for materials she can get through interlibrary loan, that would be ideal.

Thanks,
Anne

 

I was wondering if anyone knows of any primary source collections or especially valuable secondary sources that would aid in research  about brewery workers in the United States in the late 19th century.  I am interested in the brewing industry itself, so information about this is welcome, but I am especially interested in union organizing among these workers.  Until this point I have been focusing my interest on the St. Louis, Missouri region but collections specific to other geographic regions are very welcome.  I do ask that you keep in mind that I am an English speaker and do not have the time or resources to translate from German for this project.   Thank you in advance, Bobbi Zapor

 

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Anne L. Foster, PhD

Assistant Professor of History

Department of History

Stalker Hall

Indiana State University

Terre Haute IN 47809

ph: 812-237-8432

 

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