Window display featuring Wheaties

Window display featuring Wheaties

Window display featuring Wheaties, ca. 1930s.

Wheaties advertising, ca. 1930s.

Wheaties advertising

Wheaties advertising, ca. 1930s.

WCCO Wheaties Quartet

WCCO Wheaties Quartet

The WCCO Wheaties Quartet, which performed the “Gold Medal Fast Freight” radio program in the 1930s.

Wheaties advertising

Wheaties advertising

Wheaties cereal advertising, ca. 1925.

Erickson’s (Moorhead) Brewery. Photograph, 1876–ca. 1895.

Erickson’s Brewery in Moorhead

Erickson’s (Moorhead) Brewery. Photograph, 1876–ca. 1895. From the Moorhead Daily News, November 21, 1933 (“Special Jubilee” issue, section 1, page 4).

Erickson’s (Moorhead) Brewery. Engraving, ca. 1883. From The Valley of the Red River of the North: A Pamphlet (Cleveland: Moorhead Board of Trade, 1883): 43.

Erickson’s (Moorhead) Brewery

Erickson’s (Moorhead) Brewery. Engraving, ca. 1883. From The Valley of the Red River of the North: A Pamphlet (Cleveland: Moorhead Board of Trade, 1883): 43.

Black and white photograph of John Erickson, owner of Moorhead Brewery, ca. 1883. Photograph by O. E. Flaten.

John Erickson

John Erickson, owner of Moorhead Brewery, ca. 1883. Photograph by O. E. Flaten. From the Flaten/Wange Collection, Clay County Historical and Cultural Society.

Card advertising Ole Alesen’s Brewery in Moorhead, 1900. From the Fargo and Moorhead Directory―1900 (St. Paul: Pettibone Directory, 1900), 222.

Card advertising Alesen’s Brewery

Card advertising Ole Alesen’s Brewery in Moorhead, 1900. From the Fargo and Moorhead Directory―1900 (St. Paul: Pettibone Directory, 1900), 222.

Moorhead Brewing Company

The struggles and ultimate failure of the Moorhead Brewing Company, which operated between 1875 and 1901, reflect Minnesotans’ changing attitudes toward alcohol in the late nineteenth century.

Color image of Lake Wilson with grain elevator in background, 2016.

Lake Wilson

Lake Wilson with grain elevator in background, 2016.

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