Pre-Prohibition Americana · 1870s–1919 · United States
The Lost Breweries
Brewery lithographs and calendar art — thousands of brands, extinguished in one year.
Prohibition (1920) shuttered thousands of American breweries in a single stroke; most never reopened after Repeal. This collection is deep Americana, dead marks throughout.
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The Lost — mark extinguishedThe American Brewing Co.'s Famous St. Louis ABC Bock Beer, c. 1890
The American Brewing Co.'s Famous St. Louis ABC Bock Beer — advertising lithograph
The Lost — mark extinguishedColumbia Brewing Co., St. Louis, 1896
C. W. Shonk Co., Chicago (lithographers) · 1896
The Lost — mark extinguishedF. Klemm's Bock, Baltimore, 1880
F. Klemm's Bock, Baltimore, Md. No. 1 — advertising lithograph
The Lost — mark extinguishedGriesedieck Bros. Brewing Company, St. Louis, c. 1911
Griesedieck Bros. Brewing Company, St. Louis, U.S.A. — advertising print
The Lost — mark extinguishedGeo. Winter Brewing Co. Bock Beer, New York, 1900
Louis Kraemer, N.Y. (lithographer) · 1900
The Lost — mark extinguishedThe Wainwright Brewery: Bock Beer, St. Louis, 1895
Heinicke-Fiegel Lithograph Company · 1895
The Lost — mark extinguishedCentennial Bock Bier — The Best Can Be Had Here, 1876
Currier & Ives · 1876
The Lost — mark extinguishedBock, 1889
Bock — stock advertising lithograph
77% of every piece now hanging carries a dead mark