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The Wainwright Brewery: Bock Beer, St. Louis, 1895

A ram, a flag, and a brewery already being swallowed.

What

An 1895 bock-beer advertisement — a ram's head above an American flag — lithographed by the Heinicke-Fiegel Lithograph Company for the Wainwright Brewery of St. Louis.

Why

The Wainwright brewery was folded into the English-syndicate St. Louis Brewing Association in 1889 and, like the rest of the city's trade, was ended by National Prohibition in 1920.

Notice

The ram and the flag together — seasonal bock symbol wrapped in national iconography, selling a local beer as an American institution.

“It was already someone else's by the time this ran. The name outlived the ownership only on paper.”

Format

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Provenance

The Lost — mark extinguished

Artist: Heinicke-Fiegel Lithograph Company
Country: United States
Format: Poster (affiche)
Piece published: The Wainwright Brewery: Bock Beer, St. Louis — advertising lithograph, 1895
Source: Missouri Historical Society · Missouri Historical Society, item N09298 (via DPLA)

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Scan: Missouri Historical Society; 'No Copyright – United States'. Surfaced via DPLA, 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. Source marks it 'No Copyright – United States'; Missouri Historical Society item N09298. PD on publication year (1895).

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