About this image...

Image Title: Schmidt Hoffmann Brewery, Lager Beer, Cleveland, Ohio, 1880

Creator: Wittemann Bros., New York, Lithographers

Date: 1880

Summary: 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."

Notes: 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.

Subjects: Beer--America
Breweries--America
Brewing Industry--America
Men
Smoking
eating & drinking

Places: Cleveland, Ohio

Original Media: Chromolithograph

Collections: Popular Graphic Arts

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