Image of a king in robes and hose surrounded by various characters in ethnic costume reveling and drinking beer, including a German barmaid, a Zouave soldier, Uncle Sam, an Arabian man, a Chinese man with a long braid, a Native American, a barkeep, and three gnomes trying to keep a goat from ramming a man who has fallen to the ground with his beer stein; scrolls with text in German advertising Bavarian beer flank the center advertisement text; vignettes in the two bottom corners show the interiors of a brewing vat and a barrel room full of brewery workers. "American Oleo. Co. Lith. Milwaukee, Wis."--text, bottom left margin. "Copyrighted 1878 by American Oleo. Co."--text, bottom right margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 54.93 x 70.17 cm (21 5/8 x 27 5/8 in.)
Advertising--Beer Advertising--Beverages Brewing industry Chinese--Pictorial works Distilleries--Pictorial works Indians of North America--Pictorial works Kings--Pictorial works Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--Pictorial works Vill, O Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Beverages Large Size Beer, Liquor, and Wine The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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