United Beverage Bureau Books, finally accessed!

[RIBottleguy]

I decided that the only way I was going to finally see these elusive bottler directories was to go to the Library of Congress itself. Paired with a trip to the Baltimore bottle show, it made for a very fruitful weekend! The Library of Congress had every book from 1927-2014 (save 1941). I took pictures of every year for RI, and every 5 years for some New England states. I wish I could have copied every book, but I think they would have frowned on that. If anyone has requests for New England (also Passaic, Paterson NJ and two years for Arizona), let me know and I can post them. Excerpt from RI bottlers in 1950

 

[sunrunner]

man good going , I love that place .if you what to know you got to go!

 

[JohnDeereMoxie]

Awesome. Did you happen to get the Fall River, MA stuff. Pretty sure there weren't any bottlers in Westport, did they have milk bottlers listed though? Great work!