In addition to collecting beer cans, I enjoy collecting other types of beer advertising. I especially like rare and graphic New England pieces. My number one non-beer can passion is for factory scenes from breweries in Boston, Massachusetts.

Below is a list of the Boston breweries for which I collect advertising and historical documents (note some of the breweries had names with minor variations over the years or were associated with other larger breweries...all of such variations and associations are not mentioned below)*. Dates of operation also are included. I am looking for (and will happily purchase or trade for) advertising and documents from the Boston breweries listed below.

Alley & Nichols, Burton Brewery, 1871-1875

Alley, John R. (& Sons), 1886-1918

American Brewing Co., 1891-1918

Boston Beer Co., 1828-1918, 1936-1956 (today company by same name and in one of same buildings makes Sam Adams)

Broadbent, W.L., 1882

Bunker Hill Breweries (also see Van Nostrand below), 1890-1918, 1933

Burkhardt Brewing Co., 1891-1918

Burton Brewing Co., 1870-1880

Cook, Isaac & Co., Old Boston Brewery, 1865-1895

Casey Brewing Company, 1933

Commercial Brewing Co. (aka Puritan Products Co.), 1906-1918, 1930-1940

Continental Brewing Co., 1896-1901

Crown Brewing Co., 1933

Conrad Decker, 1874-1884

Croft (Brewing Co., Products Co., Narragansett Brewing Co.-Croft branch), 1933-1953

Empire Brewing Co., 1888-1891

Engle, S. & Co., 1879

Fenway Breweries Co., 1915-1918

Frank Jones Brewing Co., 1889-1904

Franklin Brewing Co., 1894-1901

Frey & King, 1877-1878

Habich, Edward, & Co., 1874-1888

Haffenreffer & Co., (aka New England Brewing Co., Pick Co., Puremalt Dept., Boston Brewing Co., Enterprise Brewing Co., Worcester Beer Co.), 1870-1964

Hanley (Colonel Patrick T., & Casey-Cook Brewery), 1886-1916

Highland Spring Brewing Co. (also see Rueter below), 1933

Houghton (& Co.-Ale Brewery, A.J., Vienna Brewery) 1870-1918

Hub Brewing Co., 1898-1903

Hunt, Wm. P., 1879-1880

Isaac Cook & Co., Old Boston Brewery

Jones (Cook & Co., Frank, & J.W. Johnson & Co.), 1857-1889

Kenney (& Ballou, H&N, Neil, N&H, James W., Amory Brewery) 1878-1918

Kent, J. Oscar, Standard Brewery, about 1872

King (Lang &, Frey &, Charles A.)

Lang & King, 1878-1883

Lauzendoerfer, George, 18961897

Massachusetts Breweries Co. (consortium of several breweries including Alley Brewing, American Brewery, Continental Brewery, Franklin Brewery, Habich Brewery, Haffenreffer, H&J Pfaff Brewery, Hanley & Casey Brewery, Robinson Brewery, Wm. Smith & Sons-Elmwood Spring Brewery,

McCormick (James, James W., Brewing Co., Brewery Co.), 1885-1915

McGlinchey, P., 1882

Mount Washington Brewery Co., about 1872

Narragansett Brewing Co., Croft branch, 1952-1953

Neale, Otis S., 1880

New England Brewing Co. (Roessle, Haffenreffer), 1890-1918, 1933

New England Brewing Co., Suffolk Brewery, 1890-1918

Park Brewing Co., 1936

Parsons & Co., 1878-1879

Pfaff (H&J, H&J Brewing Co.), 1857-1901

Puritan Brewing Co., 1898-1906

Roessle (John, New England Brewing Co.), 1846-1918

Royal & Ancient Co., Ltd. (malt beverages), during prohibition

Roxbury Brewing Co., 1898-1904

Rueter (Henry H. & John R. Alley-Highland Spring Brewery, & Co., Inc.), 1867-1918

Sedgwick, Captain Robert, 1637-?

Smith (J.M. & Co., & Engle, Wm. & Sons Brewing Co., William & Co., Elmwood Spring Brewery), 1874-1903

Souther (Henry & Co.-Bay Street Brewery, J.K., & Sons...), 1850-1857, 1880-1912

Star Brewing Co., 1896-1918, 1933-1952

Suffolk Brewing Co., 1861-1890

Tremont Brewery, about 1848

Union Brewing Co., 1893-1911

Van Nostrand (A.G., William T., Wm. T. & Co., & Kent, Crystal Lake Brewery, John Cooper & Thomas Gould, Bunker Hill Breweries), 1821-1918)

Waldberg Brewing Co., Waldberg Brewery, 1897-1912

*The source for much of this information is "American Breweries II" which was written by Dale P. Van Wieren and published by the Eastern Coast Breweriana Association in 1995.