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, owner of Moorhead Brewery, ca. 1883. Photograph by O. E. Flaten. From the Flaten/Wange Collection, Clay County Historical and Cultural Society.
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.