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Beer and The Old West

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Portrait of Tivoli-Union Brewery employees in Denver, Colorado, posing with beer mugs, kegs, and a pitcher.

Interior view of the abandoned Tivoli-Union Brewery in Denver, Colorado; shows beer vats, stair railings, and men.

Len Vogel stands in his white overalls in front of his Coors delivery truck at the Adolph Coors Brewery, Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado. The truck has an open frame bed loaded with wooden barrels and another trailer attached with wooden crates. A canvas covering for the load is on top the truck cab.

Theo Koch drives an Adolph Coors Golden Brewery delivery truck, in Golden, Jefferson County. The wood panel Frayer - Miller truck has the steering wheel on the right side, narrow tires and lantern headlights.

View of the Tivoli Brewery wagon and Clydesdale horses in Denver, Colorado; people ride the conveyance and watch from sidelines by a loudspeaker. Harness includes silver studs.

View of a horse drawn wagon in Denver, Colorado; men pose; sign reads: "Tivoli-Union Brewery."

Men ride on a horse-drawn float, part of the Festival of Mountain and Plain, in a parade in Denver, Colorado. The float depicts a king with a sword and a keg of beer. Men on the float wear costumes that include hats decorated with feathers, capes, and swords. The horses wear decorative cloth shrouds with lettering that reads: "Neef Bros Brewing Co." Spectators sit in grandstands nearby.

View of a parade float, built for the festival of Mountain and Plain, in Denver, Colorado. The float depicts a waterwheel and a large group of icicles.

Men and boys pose with cigars, pipes, shovels, a broom, and beer bottles. Crates and labels read: "Tivoli Union Brewing Co. 1342 10th St Denver, Colo."

Young men, probably Devlin's Zouaves with the Sells Floto Circus and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, pose seated on the ground in Great Falls (Cascade County), Montana. The young men are near a billboard that reads: "Drink American Beer." The boys wear caps, shirts and pants. A circus trailer is seen in the background.

View of businesses at 2433 16th (Sixteenth) Street between Platte and Central (later west Eleventh Avenue) in Denver, Colorado; shows men and girls posing, an electric light, and signs: "Beer Depot Union Brewing Co.," "Depot Rooming House Denver Head Quarters Albert Fette Prop.," "Depot Restaurant."

Copy of an 1890 beer ad shows two bottles with type and ornate borders. Lettering reads: Coors' Golden Brewery, Adolph Coors, Brewer and Bottler of Lager Beer, Golden, Colo.; beer labels read: "Coors Pure Export Beer, Brewed & Bottled by A. Coors, Golden Colo." and "Pure Pilsener Lager Beer, Brewed & Bottled by A. Coors, Golden Colo."

Photo of Boggio's Parisienne Rotisserie

A woman poses in front of Dan's Corner Tavern, 5302 Brighton Boulevard in the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The bar, a former residence, has a cross-gabled roof, brick facing and several additions. Signs read, "AMAZINGLY LOW!!, Bottle Beer 60 cents, BEER 20 cents, SHOTS 25 cents, Bourbon Whiskey, Pete Staffieri," "EGGS, SPUDS," "NOTARY PETE" and "Notary Public, Bottle Beer." A phone booth is near the building and cars are parked nearby.

A saloonkeeper wearing an apron stands outside of a saloon in La Junta, Colorado in Otero County. The nineteenth century, commercial storefront has bracketed cornices, two bays, storefront windows, a transom, and double entry doors. Bottles of beer are visible in the window. Signs: "Powell & Wonderly," "Zang's Beer," "Saloon."

View of the Tivoli Union Brewery beer wagon and team of horses, in Denver, Colorado; storefront sign reads: "Tivoli Beer T.W. Potter Barber Billiards."

A Ford Coors delivery truck parks on a Colorado street with cases of beer showing through side door. Lettering on truck reads: "Adolph Coors Co. Denver" and "Coors Brewer of Fine Beer."

A wagon drawn by a team of horses is parked next to a brewery in the town of Creede, Colorado, in Mineral County. The driver sits in the cart and a man stands next to the wagon. The building is a two-story, wood- frame structure with gables, shingles, chimneys, rectangular windows, and a covered porch with spindles. Snow covers the ground and the hills in the background. A "Beer Depot of P.H. Zang Brewing Co. Jno. Knodel, Agt." shows.

View of a beer cap (ca.1901-1915) from the Tivoli-Union Brewery in Denver, Colorado. Shows a gold colored bottle cap with a central image of the sun and rays that radiate outward on a field of gray clouds. The words: "Trade Mark" and "Tivoli" are superimposed over the sun. The cap has a gold rim with Art-Nouveau designs and the words: "The Tivoli-Union Brewing Co., Denver, Colo."

Studio portrait of Charlie Nelson, Thomas C. Browne, Douglas Patilla, and Charles Smith in Denver, Colorado. The men hold parasols and pour beer from bottles. They wear top hats and overcoats.