Collection IDMG Nwk Krueger

Size2 boxes

Collection Description Location: Offsite

The Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company was based in Newark, with headquarters at 75 Belmont Ave. It was founded in 1858 and sold in 1961, when the Newark plant closed.

The collection consists of miscellaneous items discovered by John N. Ioannou, a senior construction inspector for the Newark Board of Education, after the demolition of the Brewery. Some time later, in April 1991, he donated the item had had found to the Newark Public Library. (See Star Ledger, April 30, 1991)

Collection Contents The collection consists of material deposited in a lead time capsule and "sealed in a cornerstone" of a building on the grounds of the Krueger Brewery at Belmont Ave. (now Irvine Turner Blvd.) and West Kinney St. in 1880. One large document consists of three items pasted together: an engraving of the Gottfried Krueger Brewery; a two-page printed history of the brewery taken from a book (pp. 183-184); and a handwritten proclamation or statement headed "In Memoriam," describing a groundbreaking and giving details of the Krueger Family. Smaller items in the collection are: business cards of Charles Krueger ("Brewery Saloon," Belmont Ave.), Marshall and Ball, and Ramsberger and Hotz (Builders, Belmont Ave.); an envelope bearing an engraving of the Krueger Brewery; a letter, in German, headed "Newark, May ... 1880" and signed by Henry [??] of the Krueger Brewery (torn and badly damaged); and three items of paper currency, 25 cents and 10 cents. Stored separately in an oversize box are several issues of German-language newspapers, published in New York and New Jersey and all dated May 1880, and an issue of the Newark Morning Register for May 24, 1880.

FormatTextual materials

SubjectsArchitecture / Building; Business / Commerce; German-American History

Time Period19th Century

LanguagesEnglish; German

Access policyOpen for research

Finding AidYes