American Merchants Shipping & Forwarding Co., Price List, 1919.

Gottfried Piel, Düsseldorf, circa 1890 (Photo by Arnold Overbeck, Konigs-allee 43, Dusseldorf). (Credit: The Virtual Corkscrew Museum)

Gottfried Piel, Düsseldorf, circa 1890 (Photo by Arnold Overbeck, Konigs-allee 43, Dusseldorf). (Credit: The Virtual Corkscrew Museum)

Gottfried Piel, Düsseldorf, circa 1890 (Photo by Arnold Overbeck, Konigs-allee 43, Dusseldorf). (Credit: The Virtual Corkscrew Museum)

Town & Country Magazine, 10 August 1920.

Town & Country Magazine, 10 August 1920.

Town & Country Magazine, 10 August 1920.

G-Piel Muffler CutOut—Advertisement

Agnes Piel, nude, painted by L. Gignoux, n.d.

Anthony “Tony” Piel (b. 1936), Lizbeth Halliday Piel (b. 1946), and William Halliday Piel (b. 1968). Photo taken 1968.

City street: 1185-49 M

City street: 622-39 M

City street: 1164-13 M

City street: 1164-14 M

Henry Piel with son Elmar on knee, ca. 1919.

Ornate piece of furniture

Ornate piece of furniture

Painting - wild boars

Ornate piece of furniture

Children of Eleuae Viking Piel and Kerstin Bengtsson Piel.Standing, l-r: Sophia Louise Piel, Barbara Birgitta Piel, Seated l-r: Maria Christina Piel, Katrina Viking Catts, Carl Henry Piel, Olga Elizabeth Beattie.

Men’s crew team?

Maria Heermann Piel with three children, circa 1890.

M&G Piel Securities, Inc., annual meeting.

M&G Piel Securities, Inc., annual meeting, circa 2005.

Henry Piel’s cabin at Lake Parlin, Maine, circa 1930.

Merry Christmas from the Womack Family, Grace, Samuel, Joshua, Chase, Clay James, Luke, Faith, David, Lev

Marie Muessen Piel and Bia Maria Piel

Kerstin B. Piel, Elmar V. Piel, Katrina (Nina) Piel, Bia Maria Piel

Marie Luise Kemp, daughter Eliza, Barbara Woodward Piel, Daughter Stobie, Kerstin B. Piel, daughter Katrina (Nina)

Couple, on their wedding day (Bia Piel and Gary); Mailed from Portsmouth, NH, May 26, 2004.

Man, seated

William, at desk

William, at desk

Gerard Piel with sons Jonathan, Samuel and wife Mary Bird, New York City, 1945.

Mary, Gerard, Loretto, Bill, Johnny and Rita Piel, circa 1916.

William Piel

Dr. John

July 12, 1942, at Lake Parlin Farm.Bill, Maria, Mar Loomis Piel, Mike, Tony

Bill, John, William, Gerry, David

Post Card: Lake Parlin Farm

Man kneeling with pigeons, Venice.

Loretto, William Piel.

William, Loretto Piel.

Loretto Scott and Mammie Davis

Maria Piel at St. Joseph’s convent, Pennsylvania, with a nun circa 1950.

William Sr., Maria, Chris (Tom), Bill, Mike, Tony

William and Loretto Piel with unidentified elderly lady.

Great Grandmother Maria Piel and her son Oswald Piel, August 27, 1951

Henry Piel, William Piel, Marie Muessen Piel (standing, L to R); seated, Maria Heermann Piel, St Joseph’s convent, Pennsylvania, circa 1954.

New York Herald Tribune, May 29, 1951, “Business and Finance Leaders: William Piel, Sr.”

New York Herald Tribune, February 9, 1951, “Piel Bros. Acquires Trommer, Its Neighbor Half a Century”

New York Journal-American, October 5, 1958, Piel Bros. 75th Anniversary advertisement.

New York Journal-American, October 5, 1958, Piel Bros. 75th Anniversary advertisement.

Large group Photo

Annual Meeting of M&G Piel Securities, Inc., circa 2002.

Marie-Luise Piel Kemp, Margarita Piel McCoy with Meg (Margarita K. McCoy) in lap, circa 2003.

Margarita Piel McCoy with Meg (Margarita K. McCoy) in lap, circa 2003.

Oswald Piel, Agnes Piel Mueller, Hotel Astor, Piel Bros. Meeting, Hotel Astor, New York City, 1960.

Ornate cabinet

Ornate cabinet / Bar

Cabinet, made in Germany, 1850 - turn of the century?

Painting, Kroner (German?)

Chest, Year: 1857, made in Sweden

Chest, made in Sweden

Gerard and Eleanor Jackson Piel, standing with drinks

Standing with drinks

Womack Family on the beach

Document: Trommer’s

Map of Piel’s brewery

Piel’s Bert and Harry commemorative plate

Photo of someone setting up the table

Piel’s Light Beer commemorative plate

Two unopened Piel’s draft beer

Photos of Piel’s family gathering, third generation cousins (L to R) David, Gerard, Mark, Helga, Dan, unidentified, Eleanor, unidentified, 1115 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.

Piel’s Bros. receipt

Henry Piel and assistant in the lab, Brewers’ Journal, 1938.

Landser Brewery, Brewers’ Journal, 1938.

Brewery interior (with equipment), Brewers’ Journal, 1938.

Brewery interior, Brewers’ Journal, 1938.

Brewery interior, Brewers’ Journal, 1938.

Piel’s Bros. bottle description sent to Cider and Vinegar Manufacturers

Alfred M. McCoy, Jacksonville Naval Air Station, Christmas? 1942?

Baby

Al McCoy and woman, La Jolla, Not sure of the date, 1962??

Al McCoy, in football uniform

Baby

Toddler

Piel logo

Piel logo

Painting of dead deer and hunters

Salad tongs

Ornate wood carving hanging on wall

painting

Ornate wood carving, hanging on wall

Piel’s nick nack, “You can’t beat the taste of Piel’s Real Draft”

Elmar, Kerstin, Bia, Nina, Olga, Carl-Hemiy, Lilleba, and Sofia

Popham Beach, ME

Small photo of man

Man and woman, standing

Man, sitting

Painting of “The Big House” at Parlin

John Piel family, Christmas 1997

Advertisement, “San Antonio Express” (1913), for “Piel Bros. Only Brewers of German Style Lager Beer.”

Piel Bros. Advertisment

Piel Bros. Advertisment

Piel Bros. Advertisment

Piel Bros. Advertisment

Dog, standing in yard

Ripley’s Believe it or Not ad

Married couple, sitting in chair

Married couple, cutting cake

Group shot at wedding

Cadet

Margariet Piel McCoy pushing Alfred McCoy in stroller

Mother Margarita PIel McCoy sitting on ground with baby Candace in lap

Two children playing, Candace McCoy, right

Two children in toy truck, Alfred W. and Candace McCoy.

Two children playing in toy truck, Alfred W. McCoy (left).

Grandmother Margarita Schile Piel playing with two children, Alfred and Candace McCoy, Oklahoma, 1950s.

Two children, Candace and Alfred McCoy, playing in pool as mother Margarita P. McCoy watches

Two children playing on steps at Easter, Candace and Alfred McCoy, Oklahoma cira 1951.

Child Alfred McCoy, grandather Alfed M. McCoy, and dog Bow, on steps

Alfred W. McCoy, as baby, formal portrait

Child, Alfred W. McCoy, sitting on ottoman

Mother Margarita Piel McCoy having picnic with two children, Alfred and Candace.

Two children, Alfred and Candace, and dog Beau on Christmas morning, Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, 1954.

Margarita Piel McCoy on beach, Sanibel Island, Florida, circa 1952-52.

Alfred and Margarita McCoy (left) sitting at a party

Wrestling team, Kent School, Kent, CT, 1964, Alfred W. McCoy, 2nd from right.

Wrestling team, Kent School, Kent, CT, 1964, Alfred W. McCoy, left.

Four boys in tuxedos, leaning, Van Am Society, Columbia University, Fall of 1965 (L-R) Bob Laney, Bill Glover, Al McCoy, Earl Michelowski.

Candace McCoystanding, talking

Al McCoy, 1960s

Al McCoy in Colombia t-shirt, summer of 1965, Rockefeller Center.

Wedding photo, Al McCoy and Cathleen B. Read, June 1968

Wedding photo Al McCoy and Cathleen B. Read, June 1968

Alfred W. McCoy, office, History, University of NSW, 1980s.

AW McCoy son, Michael W. McCoy, playing rugby

Alfred W. McCoy, sitting on ottoman

Baby, in wash basin

Baby, on table

Piel Bros., Board of Directors, (far left) Julian Tashof; (4th from left) Henry J.Muessen; (far right) William Piel. Source: Found in Minutes, Michael Piel Holding Corp., in pages for May 1946.

E. Shulz-Briesen, “Captive Gypsies,” etching of original piainting owned by Michael Piel, currently in posessionn of Thomas Kemp.

Piel’s plants in 1954—original Liberty Avenue brewery, East New York; Bushwick plant, formerly Trommmer Brewery; and Staten Island plant, formerly Rubsam & Horrmann Brewing, Source: Piel Bros., Annual Report 1954, dated: March 8, 1955.

“Piel Brewery as it appeared 65 years ago,” ca. 1883. (Source, Beer Facts, Aug. 12, 1948).

“Georgia Avenue side of the brewery. Early view of the Piel ‘fleet’ featureing a number of handsome horses from Piel’s prized stable of of one hundred.” (Source, Beer Facts, Aug. 12, 1948).

“Just completed—a towering addition to the Piel plant.” (Source, Beer Facts, Aug. 12, 1948).

“Sheffield Avenue, Piel Brothers Brewery, Stockhouse E. Brooklyn, 1949.” Wurts Brothers Collection. (Credit: Museum of the City of New York)

Pension (Mr. or Mrs. Schmidt) where Mathilde Lange lived between 1917 and 1919 at Physikstrasse 6, Zurich, Switzerland, photographed in 1915 (Credit: Stadtarchiv Zurich)

Rheingold Brewery Office Building, 74 Stanwix Street, Brooklyn, NY, Photographed by John Halpern, February 1982 (Credit: Library of Congress, New York #1357).

Piel Bros., chain driven delivery truck, ca. 1915. (Credit: Brooklynpix.com)

Liberty Avenue, looking west from Ashford Street, 1925, with St. Michael’s School on right, twelve blocks from the Piel Bros. brewery. (Credit: Brooklynpix.com)

Piel Brothers Malt Truck in Front of Piel Brothers Brewery, Brooklyn, NY, 1937 (Credit: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, #52157)

Process of Brewing at Piel Bros., 1959. Source: Anthony H. Rose, “Beer,” Scientific American 200, no. 6 (June 1959), pp. 90-100—Panel 1 of 2

Process of Brewing at Piel Bros., 1959. Source: Anthony H. Rose, “Beer,” Scientific American 200, no. 6 (June 1959), pp. 90-100-Panel 2 of 2.

back of previous photo

Letter (front page) from Margarita Piel to her grandmother Maria H. Piel, summer 1940; found, with photo by Alfred McCoy in attic, Lake Parrlin Parlin June 1968.

Letter (back page) from Margarita Piel to her grandmother Maria H. Piel, summer 1940; found, with photo by Alfred McCoy in attic, Lake Parrlin Parlin June 1968.

Photo at Lake Parlin, summer 1940: 1. Margarita “Peggy” Piel; 2. “Me” (Marie Luise Piel); 3. “Grandmother” Maria Piel; 4. “Agi” Heermann; 5. Maria Heermann.

Piel, summer 1940; found, with photo by Alfred McCoy in attic, Lake Parrlin Parlin June 1968. With Photo at Lake Parlin, summer 1940: 1. Margarita “Peggy” Piel; 2. “Me” (Marie Luise Piel); 3. “Grandmother” Maria Piel; 4. “Agi” Heermann; 5. Maria Heermann.

Piel Bros. Banner, “View of the Bowery,” Coney Island, Brooklyn. Postcard mailed from Brooklyn August 6, 1911 to Elmira, NY.

NYC Tax photo 1

NYC Tax photo 2

Piel’s Bros’ Cross of Honor

Rudolf aand Margaret at home, w/o caption; Photo #1471a is the full photo with caption

Rudolf Piel cattle breeding photo

Rudolf Piel cattle breeding w/ clippings

Snook, 31 Jan 1952

The Orbiter article (11 Oct. 1968)

Photo of Trommer calendar

Piel’s ad banner posted at William-Dempsey Boxing match, 1919

Piel stock certificate – Estate of Gottfried Piel

Piel stock certificate – Henry Piel

Piel stock certificate – Trustees for Patricia Lyne

Piel stock certificate – Trustees for Patricia Lyne

Piel stock certificate – M & G Piel Securities Inc.

Piel stock certificate – Paul Piel

Piel stock certificate – Estate of Rita Piel Brown

Piel stock certificate – Agnes P. Mueller

Piel stock certificate – Louis Piel Lange

Henry Piel, Credit: Pot Pourri 1905, Yearbook Collection, Archives & Special Collections, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.

Paul Piel, Credit: Pot Pourri 1906, Yearbook Collection, Archives & Special Collections, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.

Rudolf Piel, Credit: Pot Pourri 1912, Yearbook Collection, Archives & Special Collections, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.

Gerard Piel, Credit: Pot Pourri 1933, Yearbook Collection, Archives & Special Collections, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.

Elmar Piel, Credit: Pot Pourri 1934, Yearbook Collection, Archives & Special Collections, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.

Frederick Lange, Credit: Pot Pourri 1936, Yearbook Collection, Archives & Special Collections, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.

Alfred M. McCoy, Credit: Credit: Pot Pourri 1941, Yearbook Collection, Archives & Special Collections, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.

Bjorn R. Lange, Credit: Pot Pourri 1964, Yearbook Collection, Archives & Special Collections, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.

Erwin Lange, Credit: Pot Pourri 1970, Yearbook Collection, Archives & Special Collections, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.

Erwin Lange, Credit: Pot Pourri 1970, Yearbook Collection, Archives & Special Collections, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.

Eleanor Piel Jr., Credit: Pot Pourri 1977, Yearbook Collection, Archives & Special Collections, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.

Eleanor Piel Jr., Credit: Pot Pourri 1977, Yearbook Collection, Archives & Special Collections, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.

Marriage of Kerstin C. Bengtsson and Elmar V. Piel, Tyskakyrkan, Malmö, Sweden, December 29, 1954

Henry G. Piel, b. Dec. 29, 1884, and his first-born son, Elmar Viking Piel, b. Mar. 10, 1917, taken 1918.

Lake Parlin Inn. Postcard.

“Wacke’s--Piel Bros Real German Lager Beer on Draught”; Caption “View of the Bowery, Coney Island.”Postcard is postmarked “Brooklyn N.Y.S. August 6, 1911”

Descendents of Jakob Piel, Showing Four Generations in America

Dr. Mathilde M. Lange, professor of Biology, Wheaton College, Massachusetts, in the 1920s.

Kovar Near Beer Label

Kovar Near Beer Label

Kovar Near Beer Advertisement

Piel Bros. Beer Coaster

Table 3: Piels’ Beverage Production, 1884-1961

Piel Bros. Sales Territory Showing Percentage of Local Markets, 1960

Table 4: Organization of Piel Bros. Brewery as Family Business, 1934

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