Christian Heurich Brewing Company Records
name: label: Creator
content: Christian Heurich Brewing Company (Washington, D.C.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Beer
label: Topic
content: Breweries
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Exact source and date of acquisition unknown.
creator: label: Creator
content: Christian Heurich Brewing Company (Washington, D.C.)
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content: Christian Heurich Brewing Company Records
abstract: label: Summary
content: The collection consists of three unbound volumes of invoices, orders, and receipts from manufacturers and importers of beer-related supplies purchased by Christian Heurich Brewing Company of Washington, D.C., 1883-1913.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: During the first half of the twentieth century, Christian Heurich, Sr. was the most prominent brewer in Washington, DC. He was also regarded as an elder statesman of the American brewing industry as a whole. Born in 1842 in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, Heurich immigrated to the U.S. in 1866 to start his own brewery. He ultimately succeeded on a scale that only a few of his fellow brewers were able to match. In the early 1940s, at the peak of his success, he was second only to the U.S. federal government in the amount of land he owned in Washington, D.C., and the number of people he employed. He died, in 1945 at the age of 102. 

For more information about Christian Heurich in Washington, D.C. see: Benbow, Mark. "Christian Heurich." Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, vol. 3, edited by Giles R. Hoyt. German Historical Institute.  (http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=38)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1883 - 1913
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Originally collected for the Division of Agriculture and Extractive Industries' reference collections. Transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Work and Industry in 2008.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1104
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Order books
label: Type
content: Business records
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is divided into one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by Alison Oswald, archivist, 2012.
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Benbow, Mark. "Christian Heurich." Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, vol. 3, edited by Giles R. Hoyt. German Historical Institute. Last modified June 19, 2012. http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=38 (last accessed on July 6, 2012)
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Order books
label: Genre/Form
content: Business records -- 1880-1910
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of three unbound volumes of invoices, orders, and receipts from manufacturers and importers of beer-related supplies purchased by Christian Heurich Brewing Company of Washington, D.C., 1883-1913.  There are some correspondence, credit memoranda, and price lists (Vixen Milling Tools found in Volume 3) as well as an official certificate from the City Weighmaster of Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The certificate provides the exact condition and weight of the materials shipped by railroad car. 

The collection consists of three volumes: Volume 1, 1883-1903; Volume 2, 1883-1905; and Volume 3, 1909-1913, and is arranged by volume number.  Materials within each volume are arranged chronologically. The volume pages are paginated and there is some water and smoke damage.

Some of the manufacturers, importers and other suppliers include but are not limited to D.D. Williamson and Company (chemists); William Zinsser and Company; Charles Zoeller and Company; Eureka Machine Company;
American Tap Bush Company; Toledo Busing Company; Genesee Dairy Salt; Sherwin Williams Company; Detroit White Lead Works (paint and varnish); William T. Wood and Company (ice tools); Johns Hopkins Oil Company;
Rainier Company (vehicle equipment); The Garlock Packing Company; W.M. Schwenker; National Foundry and Machine Company; Babcock and Wilcox Company (water tube steam boilers); De La Vergne Refrigerating Machine Company; Foster Pump Works; Michigan Lubricator Company; S.B. Bing Sons (hop merchants of Nuremberg, Germany); American Malting Company; Borchert Malting Company; Elsas & Pritz (grain); North Star Malting Company; Link Belt Company; Harrisburg Foundry and Machine Works; Smith & Armstrong (iron, nails, steel); B.P. Clapp Ammonia Company; and O.F. Day, Son & Company.