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Centennial Bock Bier — The Best Can Be Had Here, 1876

A saloon window card from the Centennial year — no brewery, any brewery.

What

An 1876 Currier & Ives lithograph, made in the American Centennial year, that a saloon could display to announce bock beer 'can be had here' — it names no single brewery.

Why

A period stock advertising print rather than a brewery mark; its publisher, the famous firm of Currier & Ives, itself closed in 1907, and the pre-Prohibition bock-poster genre disappeared after 1920.

Notice

The blank where a brewery name would go — this is the generic window card any tavern bought by the bundle, the substrate the whole trade ran on.

“It advertised no one, so it outlived everyone.”

Format

The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.

Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 27x41" cleanly.

Size

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Provenance

The Lost — mark extinguished

Artist: Currier & Ives
Country: United States
Format: Broadside
Piece published: Centennial Bock Bier — The best can be had here — saloon window card, 1876
Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · LCCN 90715712

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Scan: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division; no known restrictions. Hosted on Wikimedia Commons.

Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (piece published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the piece’s own publication year, never a brand’s founding year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18. Generic stock print, no brewery mark. Library of Congress no known restrictions; LCCN 90715712. PD on publication year (1876).

This brand was extinguished by Prohibition in 1920. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.