The Australian National University Archives has a new online exhibition showcasing the history of Tooth and Company, a significant New South Wales brewer, and the many hotels it owned and supplied throughout the state.

They included:

Bellingen

Exchange Hotel

Federal Hotel

Urunga

Ocean View Hotel

Dorrigo

Commercial Hotel

Dorrigo Hotel

Repton

Repton Hotel (ex Raleigh Hotel)

The exhibition includes a special interactive map that lets you locate hotels owned or supplied by Tooth and Company between the 1920s and the 1970s.

From the map you can see photographs and other information about hotels on 'yellow cards'. These are index cards the company kept about its own hotels and those of its competitors.

Each card covers roughly a decade. While the cards vary slightly, they all provide the same basic information.

The front of the card normally has the hotel name, location, owner, licensee, a graph featuring the number of barrels or dozens of bottles of Tooth’s beer supplied to the hotel, and information on the total trade with Tooth.

The back of the card usually provides a photograph of the hotel and information about the building, land, amenities, nearby hotels and local industries. If this information was not provided the card was not digitised.

The online exhibition links to all the records located in the ANU Open Research repository, which are available for users to view and download.  For any questions regarding the rights and usage of photographs, or for more information, please contact the ANU Archives at butlin.archives@anu.edu.au

ANU is committed to making important collections such as these available online, as it provides access to world-class resources to the broader community.

View the exhibit online at www.archives.anu.edu.au/toothhotels