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Schmidt Hoffmann Brewery, Lager Beer, Cleveland, Ohio, 1880
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| | Description: | An advertising poster from 1880 for the Schmidt & Hoffmann Brewery in Cleveland, Ohio. The ad promotes the brewery's Lager Beer. Features a well-hatted and goateed fellow smoking a meerschaum pipe and enjoying a stein of beer. Near the bottom of the print appear the words, "Brewery cor. Ansel & Hough Aves. Cleveland, Ohio." At bottom in very, very small lettering, the publisher is identified: "Copyright 1880, Wittemann Bros. Impt. of Art Lithographs, New York." |
| Note: | The Schmidt & Hoffmann Brewery was founded in 1852 and became the Cleveland Brewing Company in 1887. In 1897, the company joined the conglomerate of breweries known as the Cleveland & Sandusky Brewing Company. The plant ceased brewing beer at the onset of National Prohibition. |
| Lithographers: | Wittemann Bros., New York |
| Date: | 1880 |
| Media: | Chromolithograph |
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