Image of a Milwaukee lager advertisement showing a top image of a German brewer in an apron holding a glass of beer aloft in one hand and a pitcher in the other while emerging from a barrel room with the word "Prosit!" engraved on the front step; with a bottom image of an elevated landscape view of Val. Blatz's brewery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with horse-drawn vehicles and beer barrels visible in the foreground of an industrial complex of buildings including an ice house, boiler house, engine room, office, and brewery building; images flanked by an elaborate border featuring Classical sculptures of women with pitchers and drinking vessels, twining ivy, and two medallion images, one from the 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition labeled "International Exhibition Philadelphia MDCCCLXXVI Awarded by the United States Centennial Commission." "Published by Witteman Bros. Lith., New York"--text, bottom right margin. "M. Ulffers"--artist's signature on stone, bottom right of image. "[Copyrig]hted 1879 by Val. Blatz Milwaukee, Wis."--text, bottom left corner.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 78.58 x 62.71 cm (30 15/16 x 24 11/16 in.)
Advertising--Beer Advertising--Beverages Breweries--Pictorial works Brewing industry Industrial buildings--Pictorial works Milwaukee (Wis.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works Blatz, Val Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Views. (gmgpc)
Place
Milwaukee (Wis.)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Beverages Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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