Wm. Piel, Sr. Collection

Michael Piel and Maria Heermann Piel in wicker trishaw in a tropical location.

[caption in hand of Gerard Piel] “Wm. Piel Sr., on trout-fishing expedition in Canada. 1920s?”

[probably typed by Wm. Piel, Jr.] “Dad [William Piel, Sr.] on the St. Lawrence River.”

William Piel, Sr., reading magazine in suit and spats, at home in Woodmere, Long Island, probably 1920s.

Picnic in the grass. (left to right) William Piel, Sr. and Lorretto Scott Piel.

William Piel, Jr. in suite and bow tie.

[caption in hand of Gerard Piel] “Paul Piel, 1937, at Salmon Kill.” [caption in pencil] “Paul by Ned Crane, Summer 1937]

Young man in Bowler at Piazza San Marco. (Credit: Amateur Photografie. Venise, Place S. Marco, 79. APR 1909. Dre. H. Jordon, Kodak Depot)

William Piel, Sr., portrait. (Credit: Alman & Co., 590 Fifth Ave., N.Y)

Unid. man, Venice.

William Piel, Jr. (center) playing clarinet.

from, “Piels: Highlights of Brewing,” (brochure, 1962)

“The Original Lanzer Plant.” [from, “Piels: Highlights of Brewing,” (brochure, 1962)]

“Company Mourns Death of William Piel” Piel Periscope V, no. 4 (April 1953), p. 1.

Salmon Kill Farm, owned by William Piel, Sr., Salisbury, CT. (Credit: John R. Jordan, Artist Photographer, Lakeville, Conn.)

[caption by William Piel, Jr.] “David insisted we take this because ‘it’ll show the farm buildings.’ I must admit it does.” Salmon Kill Farm, owned by William Piel, Sr., Salisbury, CT.

Salmon Kill Farm, owned by William Piel, Sr., Salisbury, CT.

[letter from Gerard Piel to A.W. McCoy, 2/10/2002] “The pictures with the Flag recall a ceremony: we had pioneered the digging of a vegetable garden of considerable size and the fencing thereof and reserved from Wm Sr. the digging out of the last piece of sod.” Salmon Kill Farm, owned by William Piel, Sr., Salisbury, CT.

[letter from Gerard Piel to A.W. McCoy, 2/10/2002] “Salmon Kill Farm: has views of the place and incidental activities including evidence that we all pitched in at lawn-mowing and gardening.” Salmon Kill Farm, owned by William Piel, Sr., Salisbury, CT.

[letter from Gerard Piel to A.W. McCoy, 2/10/2002] “Wm Piel, Jr.: Herein you will find pix of Bill at CMTC (Citizen’s Military Training Camp) at Plattsburg [N.Y.]…In high school at St. Francis Xavier, a (Jesuit) military academy in lower Manhattan to which he commuted from Woodmere [Long Island], he spent at last one in the horse drawn artillery, finding his life-long engagement with horses…”

[letter from Gerard Piel to A.W. McCoy, 2/10/2002] “Wm Piel, Jr.: Herein you will find pix of Bill at CMTC (Citizen’s Military Training Camp) at Plattsburg [N.Y.]…In high school at St. Francis Xavier, a (Jesuit) military academy in lower Manhattan to which he commuted from Woodmere [Long Island], he spent at last one in the horse drawn artillery, finding his life-long engagement with horses…” William Piel, Jr. (right).

[letter from Gerard Piel to A.W. McCoy, 2/10/2002] “Wm Piel, Jr.: …One picture shows him on horseback with our Woodmere [Long Island] house behind him.”

[letter from Gerard Piel to A.W. McCoy, 2/10/2002] “Wm Piel, Jr.: At Princeton, was member of Utopia delegation to a League of Nations exercise.” [Caption in hand of William Piel, Jr.] “The Prince,” 18 April 1931. ’32 Ward, MacMillan, Telefson, Shanley, Piel.”

Postcard of Piel Farm, Parlin Pond, Maine. To: Mrs. Wm. Piel, 126th St. Y Newport Ave., Belle Harbor, Long Island, N.Y. From: Mother [Maria H. Piel]. Postmark: Lake Moxie, Maine, Sep 1918.

Piel Farm, Parlin Pond, Maine.(rear, left to right: William Piel, Jr., Maria Heermann Piel with infant John, Mary Piel (front row): Rita Piel, Gerard Piel. [XX check with Gerard Piel).

(left) unid., (right) Lorretto Scott Piel. Piel Farm, Parlin Pond, Maine.

Mary Piel, Piel Farm, Parlin Pond, Maine.

(left to right) William Piel, Jr., Gerard Piel, Mary Piel, Rita Piel, Piel Farm, Parlin Pond, Maine.

Lorretto Scott Piel, Parlin Pond, Maine.

Dead bear, Parlin Pond, Maine. (second from right in cape) Maria H. Piel.

[letter from Gerard Piel to A.W. McCoy, 2/10/2002] “Parlin Miscellany: ... the corduroy walking road and wagon road out to Grace Pond (?). The last of these brings back another of my earliest memories: of my father’s boots stamping the mud off his shoes on the corduroy logs and how towering and immense he appeared.”

Maria Heermann Piel, Piel Farm, Parlin Pond, Maine.

[caption in hand of William Piel, Jr.] “Setauket, L.I., Summer 1926.” (left to right) Gerard, Mary, William Jr., Lorretto, David [in front of Lorretto], William Sr., John.

(left to right; rear) Mary Piel, William, Jr.; (middle) John, Gerard, Lorretto, Rita; (front) David.

William Piel, Jr. fishing.

New York Times, 28 June 1938. “Rita Piel, Hobson Brown Are Wed at St. Patrick’s. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Piel Married.”

[caption in hand of William Piel, Jr.] “Rita, John and David Piel, Tucson, Arizona, 1937-8.” [letter from Gerard Piel to A.W. McCoy, 2/10/2002] “A folded album page documenting Rita’s marriage to Hobson Brown (as in Brown Bros Harriman, but a man of leisure). They met in Tucson, Ariz., where my mother and Rita were in residence with John (exiled by TB from Yale…)—circa 1934-5.”

[caption in hand of William Piel, Jr.] “Rita & Sandra Brown, Salisbury [CT], 1939.”

Genevieve Scott, sister of Lorretto Scott Piel. [letter from Gerard Piel to A.W. McCoy, 2/10/2002] “This envelope has portraits of maternal grandparents and a fanciful portrait of our beauteous and blighted (note bottles of port?) Tante Gene (Genevieve).”[caption in white pen on black album page] “Tanta Gene by Chapin.”