According to City Directories, the Paul Malin Sample Room was located at 120 4th Street from the years 1890-1900. The building later became part of the Bodega Lunch Club.

One photograph in this collection shows the interior of an unknown bar with a calendar in the background that appears to be open to May of 1912. The bar heavily advertises Elfenbrau, which was a beer introduced in 1910 by the C. & J. Michel Brewing Company's La Crosse Brewery (1857-1956), known more widely as Michel Brewing Co. The brewery was located on the 700 block of Third Street, but had a sampling room in downtown La Crosse at 113-115 South Third Street.

The John Gund Brewing Company (1873-1920) was located at what is now 2130 South Avenue. Gund Brewing Co. typically employed women and children for their bottling works, which is evidenced in one of the photographs.

The Hussa Brewering Company (1895-1920) was located in downtown Bangor, Wisconsin. The Brewery closed in response to Prohibtion and the Hussa family begain a vegetable canning factory in the building. After Prohibition ended in 1933, the Sprehns Feed Mill used the building until 1994, when it was abandoned. It was raized in 2008.

The G. Heilman Brewery Company (1858-1999) was located at 1018 Third Street (where City Brewing Company reopened production in 1999). The brewery began as a partnership between Gottlieb Heilman and John Gund in 1858. The two split in 1872 and Gottleib Heilman renamed the the company to City Brewery, which his wife Johanna Heilman took over in 1878 after his sudden death. Johanna Heilman, sometimes cited as the first woman CEO in the U.S., ran the brewery successfully for the next 34 years, incorporating the company in 1890 as the G. Heilman Brewing Company. Johanna's brother-in-law Robert Wacker and son-in-law Emil T. Mueller aided her in running the brewery. Under this team's leadership, the brewery expanded a strong national market as the largest Wisconsin brewery outside of Milwaukeee. Heilman's flagship beer started as their Golden Leaf beer, but was later replaced by Old Style Lager. Heilman survived Prohibition selling near-beer, sodas, and malt syrup for home brew.