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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

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.

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 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.