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The Lost
A roll call of the marks this house sells as art because there is no business left to sell as a drink. The bans and the romance are the same fact: within twenty years, the absinthe bans of the 1910s and Prohibition in 1920 mass-extinguished entire categories of drinks advertising. What follows is what they left behind.
Extinguished by the absinthe bans
Extinguished by Prohibition, 1920
Columbia Brewing Co., St. Louis, 1896
Columbia Brewing Company
F. Klemm's Bock, Baltimore, 1880
F. Klemm (Klemm's Brewery, Baltimore)
Geo. Winter Brewing Co. Bock Beer, New York, 1900
Geo. Winter Brewing Co.
The Wainwright Brewery: Bock Beer, St. Louis, 1895
Wainwright Brewery
Centennial Bock Bier — The Best Can Be Had Here, 1876
Bock, 1889
Belle of Nelson Sour Mash Whiskey, 1883
Belle of Nelson
Old Valley Whiskey, 1905
Old Valley (Continental Whiskey Co.)
Gone from the market
Maurin Quina, 1906
Maurin Quina
France-Champagne (E. Debray), 1891
France-Champagne (E. Debray)
Champagne De Rochegré, 1910
De Rochegré
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The American Brewing Co.'s Famous St. Louis ABC Bock Beer, c. 1890
American Brewing Co. (ABC)
Griesedieck Bros. Brewing Company, St. Louis, c. 1911
Griesedieck Bros. Brewing Company
Bininger's Old Kentucky Bourbon, 1860
Bininger's
Bininger's Pioneer Bourbon, 1859
Bininger's
Robertson's Genuine Bourbon Cordial, 1857
Robertson's
Congress Bourbon, 1864
Congress Bourbon
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Confiscated Still, 1922
Liquor Raid, 1922
Destroying Liquor, 1923
E. C. Yellowly, Chief of General Prohibition Agents, 1925
Drawing of a Still, U.S. Bureau of Prohibition
"Too Many Holes to Watch," 1923
Carrie A. Nation, c. 1900
Frances E. Willard, 1906
Sakura Beer, 1912
Sakura Beer
Mascara — Vin d'Algérie, 1925
See also The Dry Years — the counter-collection, the case for the bans that built this room.