Sorry, but I made a slight error in my previous email.  Instead of:

In "One Hundred Years of Brewing", four companies are referenced for the
State of Iowa in 1903 (1974:579,599-600), but no mention is made of the
Dubuque Malting Company.

... the message should have read:

In "One Hundred Years of Brewing", four malting companies are referenced for
the State of Iowa in 1903 (1974:579,599-600), but no mention is made of the
Dubuque Malting Company.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Mike






On Thu, 02 May 2002 14:42:23 -0800 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> HISTARCH,
>
> I have a bottle base with the following base mark:
>
> DUBUQUE MALTING CO.   DUBUQUE, IA.
>
> The complete name for this company is the Dubuque Brewing and Malting
> Company, whose company buildings in Dubuque were added to the National
> Register of Historical Places in 1978. Register information online only
> gives bracketing dates for the "period of significance" in 25-year blocks,

> and for these buildings give 1875-1899 and 1900-1924. I have looked in the

> familiar bottle base mark reference material which include liquor bottles
> (e.g., Toulouse; Wilson & Wilson), but have found nothing regarding this
> bottle or company.
>
> Does anybody know more-exact dates for this bottle base mark or company?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robin Mills
> Archaeologist
> BLM-NFO
> Fairbanks, AK