About this image...

Image Title: E. Anheuser Co's Brewery, St. Louis Lager Beer, 1879

Creator: Wittemann Brothers, New York, Lithographer

Date: 1879

Summary: An advertising poster from 1879 for the E. Anheuser Co.'s Brewing Association, (later, Anheuser-Busch) of St. Louis, Missouri. The print features a bottle of St. Louis Lager Beer overlooking two views of the brewery in St. Louis -- a birds-eye view of the exterior of the plant, and an interior view of racking department where bottles and barrels were filled with beer. Above the factory scenes is a group of gnomes drinking beer. The print is decorated with hop vines and barley stalks, signifying two of the main ingredients in beer.

Subjects: Beer--America
Breweries--America
Brewing Industry--America
Boys
eating & drinking

Places: St. Louis, Missouri

Original Media: Chromolithograph

Collections: Popular Graphic Arts

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