GRAIN BELT BREWERIES:

An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

Manuscripts Collection

Part or all of this collection is restricted.
For details, please see restrictions.

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	Creator:	Grain Belt Breweries, Inc.,
	Title:	Company records.
	Dates:	1890-1976.
	Abstract:	Correspondence, minutes, financial records, trademark information, annual reports, scrapbooks, in-house publications, and miscellaneous papers relating to a Minneapolis brewery.
	Quantity:	24.5 cubic feet (20 boxes).
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf locations

Includes records of Grain Belt Breweries, predecessor Minneapolis Brewing Company, and Golden Grain Juice Company. There is also some material relating to corporate parent G. Heileman Brewing Company, and there is some correspondence with government agencies.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Access Restrictions:

Digitized originals are closed. Access and use requires the curator's permission.

Some of these files are located off site in Remote Storage. Advance arrangements are required in order to view the files.

Please consult reference staff for more information.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Grain Belt Breweries, Inc. Company Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples

Accession Information:

Accession number(s): 12,915; 13,593

Processing Information:

Processed by: Bonnie Palmquist, January 1986.

Digitized by: Minnesota Historical Society, April 2019

Catalog ID number: 990017351280104294

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION


Location	Box
307.G.3.5B	1	Minneapolis Brewing Company: Board of Directors minutes, 1890-1907. 4 volumes.
			RESTRICTED
			Volume 1
			Volume 2
			Volume 3
			Volume 4


Location	Box
309.C.15.5B	2	Minneapolis Brewing Company: Board of Directors minutes, 1907-1936. 3 volumes.
			RESTRICTED
			Volume 1
			Volume 2
			Volume 3


Location	Box
309.C.15.6F	3	Minneapolis Brewing Company: Board of Directors minutes, 1933-1959. 3 volumes.
			The company was reorganized in 1933.
			RESTRICTED
			Volume 1
			Volume 2
			Volume 3


		Golden Grain Juice Company: Minutes, 1915-1930. 1 volume.
			RESTRICTED
			Part 1


		Minneapolis Brewing Company of Nebraska: Minutes, 1915-1919.
			RESTRICTED
			Digital version


		Grain Belt Breweries, Inc.: Minutes, 1972.
			RESTRICTED
			January 25, 1972
			Feburary 29, 1972
			March 28, 1972
			April 24, 1972
			May 23, 1972
			June 27, 1972
			July 25, 1972
			August 15, 1972
			August 29, 1972
			September 26, 1972
			October 17, 1972
			November 21, 1972
			December 19, 1972


		Unidentified index.
			RESTRICTED
			Digital version


Location	Box
148.D.2.6F	4	Publicity for beer anniversary, 1938.
			RESTRICTED
			Digital version


		Clippings, 1939-1949. 1 volume.
			RESTRICTED
			Digital version


		Minneapolis Brewing Company: Stockholders, 1906-1936. 4 volumes and 1 folder.


Location	Box
148.D.2.7B	5	Minneapolis Brewing Company: Salesbook, 1890.
			RESTRICTED
			Digital version


		Grain Belt Breweries: Sales Analysis, 1972-1974.


		Minneapolis Brewing Company: General Ledger, 1935-1968.


Location	Box
148.D.2.8F	6	Golden Grain Stock Certificates, 1920,1929.
			RESTRICTED
			Digital version


		Minneapolis Brewing Company: General Ledger, 1935-1960.


		Grain Belt Breweries, Inc.: Cash Receipts, 1973.


Location	Box
309.C.15.7B	7	Grain Belt Breweries, Inc.: Analysis of Accounts, 1975-1976.
			RESTRICTED
			Digital version


		Minneapolis Brewing Company: Appraisal, 1962. 4 volumes.
			RESTRICTED
			Volume 1
			Volume 2
			Volume 3
			Volume 4


		Storz Brewery, Omaha: Appraisal Report, 1972.
			RESTRICTED
			Digital version


		Notes, 1920-1932.
			RESTRICTED
			Digital version


Location	Box
309.C.15.8F	8	Scrapbooks 1933-1939, 1954-1970. 7 volumes.
			RESTRICTED
			1933-1939
			1955-1957
			1957-1959
			1959-1964
			1964-1968
			1963-1970


Location	Box
148.H.6.4F	9	Grain Belt Breweries: Ledger, 1971.


Location	Box
148.H.6.5B	10	Grain Belt Breweries, Inc.: Ledger, 1972.


Location	Box
148.H.6.6F	11	Grain Belt Breweries, Inc.: Ledger, 1973.


Location	Box
148.H.6.7B	12	Grain Belt Breweries: Ledger, 1974.


Location	Box
148.H.6.8F	13	Shareholder Annual Meetings, 1970-1972; 1974.


		Sale of certain assets to G. Heilman Brewing Co., 1975.


		Comparative statements to Stockholders, 1936-1945.


		Financial statements regarding application for listing stock on Chicago Stock Exchange, 1937.


		Audit reports, 1909; 1952-1969; 1971.


		Internal Committees (staff, safety and security): Minutes, 1967-1975. 1 notebook.


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148.H.6.9B	14	Minneapolis Brewing Company and Minneapolis Shareholders Company: Miscellaneous papers, 1933; 1936.


		Federal Alcohol Administration: Label approval, 1939.


		Federal Alcohol Administration Label Application and Certificate of Approval, 1940-1945.


		U.S. government plats of Minneapolis Brewing Company, 1933-1948.


		Stock certificates (specimens), 1934.


		New Minneapolis Brewing Company: Label Approvals: Different states. Numbers 2 and 3.


		Articles of Incorporation.


		Golden Grain Juice Company, 1919-1920.


		Union agreements, 1967-1974.


		Memorials: Directors.


		Warehouse addition (plans).


		New garage building (plans).


		Quarterly use tax returns (South Dakota), 1956-1967.


Location	Box
148.H.6.10F	15	Huaenstein Brewing Company, 1970-1975.


		White Label Brewing Company, 1960-1975.


		Federal Trade Commission and Securties and Exchange Commission: Financial reports, 1971-1973.


		State of Iowa: White Seal trademark.


		Miscellaneous deeds and cash bonds.


		Correspondence: Jacob Kunz, 1917-1926.


		Consolidated Foods Corporation, 1970.


		Minneapolis Basketball Copration, 1958-1961.


Location	Box
148.H.7.1B	16	Storz Division, 1967-1972. 2 envelopes.


		Securities and Exchange Commission, 1949-1974.


		New Minneapolis Brewing Company.


		Label Approvals: Different states, 1935-1937.


		Minneapolis Brewing Company: Retirement plan for salaried employees, 1963-1968.


		Marsh and McLennan (insurance representatives): Agreement, March 9, 1951.


		Assignment of trademark,


		Minnehaha Pale.


		Letters Patent: Invention,
			Regarding illuminated advertising medium.


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148.H.7.2F	17	Securities and Exchange Commission, 1934-1975. 6 envelopes.


		Brewery Permits: Correspondence, 1936-1950.


		Chicago Stock Exchange, 1936-1951.


		Licenses: Branches, 1939-1943.


		Insurance policies, 1959-1961.


		Alcohol Tax Unit, 1947-1952.


		Can labels,
			Photostatic copies


		Minneapolis-St. Paul Stock Exchange, 1936.


		Articles of Incorporation, 1935-1976. 9 envelopes.
			Includes Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Michigan, Iowa, Montana, Missouri.


		Foreign stockholders reports, 1942. 2 envelopes.


		Office of Price Administration, 1942.


		Minnesota Securities Commission, 1937.


		Minneapolis Brewing Company: Capital Stock Returns, 1933-1940.


		Federal Trade Commission, 1940-1941.


Location	Box
148.H.7.3B	18	Federal Alcohol Administration, 1948-1975.


		Trademark registration correspondence, 1937-1971.


		Surplus annual meeting forms, 1962-1967.


		Copyrights: Advertising, Motion Pictures, 1971-1974.


		"Deputy" Appointments, 1928-1953.


		Apparatus for U.S. Patent, 1969.


		Registration and trademarks, 1896-1940. 4 envelopes.
			Includes Golden Grain Juice Company.


		First Mortage bonds and documents, 1952-1955.


Location	Box
148.H.7.4F	19	Back to Work: An Old Industry Leads the Way. circa 1936.


		Minneapolis Brewing Company: Original circular, 1938.
			Proposed by company for the Chicago Stock Exchange.


		Fourth annual outing office staff, Lake Minnetonka, July 21, 1910.
			Souvenir booklet.


		The Grain Belt Diamond, 1955-1972.
			Irregularly published; no issues for 1965.


		Storz Breweries: Beer can mockups.


Location	Box
144.D.1.3B	20	Minneapolis Brewing Company.


		Payroll books, 1907-1923. 5 volumes.


		Time Books Bottling House, May 1936-September 1937. 2 volumes.


		Time Book Bottling House, January-September 1943. 1 volume.


		Stock certificates, 1907-1922. 1 volume.

RELATED MATERIALS

Related materials: Annual reports and newsletters are in the Minnesota Historical Society serials collection.

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CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:: Beer industry -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.; Breweries -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.; Business enterprises -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.; Brewing industry -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Organizations:: G. Heileman Brewing Company (La Crosse, Wis.).; Golden Grain Juice Company (Minneapolis, Minn.).; Minneapolis Brewing Company.; United States. Federal Alcohol Administration.

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GRAIN BELT BREWERIES:

OVERVIEW

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

RELATED MATERIALS

CATALOG HEADINGS