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Anaconda Brewing Company (Mont.) Records, 1898-1989

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Anaconda Brewing Company (Mont.)
Title
Anaconda Brewing Company (Mont.) Records
Dates
1898-1989 (inclusive)
Quantity
2.25 linear feet, 7 artifacts, 13 photographs
Collection Number
Mss 167 (collection)
Summary
The Anaconda Brewing Company was located in Anaconda, Montana. This collection includes minutes of meetings for the brewery, names of shareholders and the amount of stocks they held, certificates, letters to stockholders, financial records, clippings about the Anaconda Brewery and articles about breweries in Butte, Montana.
Repository
University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections
Archives and Special Collections
Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library
University of Montana
32 Campus Dr. #9936
59812-9936
Missoula, MT
Telephone: 406-243-2053
library.archives@umontana.edu
Access Restrictions

Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of Archives and Special Collections, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, and The University of Montana--Missoula.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Historical Note

The original Anaconda Brewery was built in Anaconda, Montana, near Walnut and West Fourth streets and operated by Joe Paul and Joseph Steger, later joined by John V. Petritz. About 1900 Henry Mueller took control of the Anaconda Brewery. Mueller also owned Centennial Brewery in Butte, the Billings Brewery, and was part owner of the Olympia Brewery. The Anaconda Brewery buildings also included a Brewery Saloon and Beer Garden and a bowling alley, which was added in 1914.

Mueller's brother-in-law, Adam Tuchscherer, became a bookkeeper at the Anaconda Brewing Company. In 1908 Adam Tuchscherer became president of the brewery. In 1916 when Prohibition went into effect in Montana, all breweries and liquor stores closed. The Anaconda Brewing Company became the Anaconda Products Company, and continued to bottle soft drinks. The machinery of the Walnut Street Brewery in Anaconda was sold to a Canadian brewery and the building was taken down in 1927. When the brewery went dry, Tuchscherer bought all the shares of the brewery.

After the repeal of Montana's Prohibition in 1926, the Anaconda Brewing Company was reopened at 1200 East Park in Anaconda, Montana, by Adam Tuchscherer and his two sons, Arthur and Walter on July 1, 1933. The bottling works and office remained on Walnut Street until 1939, when a new addition was made on the Park Street side of the brewery. Adam Tuchscherer died in 1944, but Adam and Walter continued the production of Rocky Mountain Beer until 1955. In 1958 the Anaconda Brewery closed and the soft drink division became the Sugrue Bottling Company.

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Content Description

This collection includes minutes of meetings for the brewery, names of shareholders and the amount of stocks they held, certificates, letters to stockholders, financial records, clippings about the Anaconda Brewery and articles about breweries in Butte, Montana. The artifacts in this collection include bottles of beer and White Soda that the brewery manufactured, and photographs pertaining to the brewery.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. and any other applicable statutes. Copyright not transferred to The University of Montana.

Preferred Citation

[Name of document or photograph number], Anaconda Brewing Company Records, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana--Missoula.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The collection is divided into five series:

Series I: Organization, 0.6 feet, 1898-1959

Series II: Financial Records, 1.5 feet, 1916-1957

Series III: Clippings, 2 folders, 1933-1989

Series IV: Artifacts, 7 items, undated

Series V: Photographs, 13 photographs, circa 1914-1940

Custodial History

This collection remained with the Tuchscherer family until donation to the K. Ross Toole Archives.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Dr. Mabel D. Tuchscherer, 1970 and 1992.

Processing Note

The actions of the original processors are unknown. In 1999, the collection was reprocessed. The original materials were separated into two separate collections. Mss 167 includes materials directly related to the Anaconda Brewery and Mss 343 includes materials that pertain to the personal life of Walter Tuchscherer, one of the company's primary owners.

Separated Materials

In 1999 materials pertaining directly to the personal life of Walter Tuchscher were separated out from this collection and assigned a separate designation--Mss 343, the Walter Tuchscherer Papers. In April 1992 Mabel Tuchscherer granted an oral history interview regarding her knowledge of the Anaconda Brewing Company and her family history. This recording can be found in the K. Ross Toole Archives Oral History Collection, number OH 273-001.

Related Materials

The Anaconda City Hall Museum holds a large collection of Anaconda Brewing Company artifacts.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Finding aid prepared by Brooke Simpson
1999

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