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Image Title: Bartholomay Brewing Co, Rochester, New York, 1885

Creator: Julius Bien, New York, Publisher

Date: 1885

Summary: An advertising poster from 1885 for the Bartholomay Brewing Company of Rochester, New York. The print features two women enjoying a bottle of Bartholomay Beer, while a female servant enters the room with a tray of food. On the sideboard in the background are several more bottles of Bartholomay beer. At the bottom of the print are the words, "Bottling Department, Central Avenue, Rochester, New York."

Notes: A short history of the Bartholomay Brewing Company from the 1903 book, One Hundred Years of Brewing: "The Bartholomay Brewing Company, Rochester, originated in the little plant founded in that city by Philip Will and Henry Bartholomay, in 1852. In 1857 the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Will starting an independent business and Mr. Bartholomay continuing the one already established. In 1874 the Bartholomay Brewing Company was incorporated, with the founder as president and his son, William, then twenty years of age, as superintendent. Since then the business has greatly expanded."

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

Places: Rochester, New York

Original Media: Chromolithograph

Collections: Popular Graphic Arts

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