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F. Klemm's Bock, Baltimore, 1880

Bock season, chromolithographed at a resolution the brewery never saw.

What

An 1880 chromolithographed bock-beer advertisement for the Baltimore brewer F. Klemm, digitized at very high resolution by the Library of Congress.

Why

Klemm's was one of the many small German-American Baltimore breweries of the 1870s–80s that vanished; the city's brewing trade was ended entirely by National Prohibition in 1920.

Notice

The bock goat rendered in full chromolithographic bloom — this is the seasonal advertising vocabulary at its 1880s peak.

“A small house, gone without a trace but this sheet.”

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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$29.00

Provenance

The Lost — mark extinguished

Country: United States
Format: Poster (affiche)
Piece published: F. Klemm's Bock, Baltimore, Md. No. 1 — advertising lithograph, 1880
Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · LCCN 2003656601

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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. Library of Congress reports no known restrictions on publication; LCCN 2003656601. PD on publication year (1880).

F. Klemm (Klemm's Brewery, Baltimore) was extinguished by Prohibition in 1920. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.