Beer art by George Petty (1894-1975)
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Mmmm, Beer
Posted in Art, Beer on March 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Beer in Black & White
Posted in Art, Beer on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
From Scribner’s Magazine in 1908, illustrations from a piece on life in Munich by Rene Reinicke (1860-1926). The author’s illustrations are wood engravings; the title illustrations are pen & ink by Franklin Booth (1874-1948), one of my favorite illustrators.
The Halifax Disaster
Posted in Beer, Postcards, War on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There was more to the Halifax, Nova Scotia, disaster than Olands’ Breweries, but this postcard prompted me to look into it. On Thursday, December 6, 1917, at 8:40 a.m., the Mont-Blanc, a departing French ship fully loaded with munitions for the war in Europe, collided with a Norwegian ship, the Imo, in Halifax Harbor. The [...]
City Brewery, Juneau
Posted in Beer, Dogs, Postcards on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
While searching for log cabin postcards many years ago, I came across this building that once served the City Brewery in Juneau, Alaska. Built by Presbyterians in 1881, it was a church, a school, a carpenter’s shop, and then an office for the brewery, before being torn down in 1914. Below, a slightly more inclusive [...]
Salute!
Posted in Art, Beer on January 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Illustration by Jeff Wack
Keep Going for Burger Bohemian Beer
Posted in Advertising, Art, Beer on January 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Art from a tin sign for Burger Bohemian Beer of Cincinnati, Ohio, by Henry (Hy) Hintermeister (1897-1972); produced in Coshocton, Ohio, by the American Art Works.
The Duke
Posted in Advertising, Art, Beer on December 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Art by Cheri Bladholm, with inspiration from N.C. Wyeth, commissioned by Marc and Mary Rubenstein of Middle Ages Brewing.
August Roeseler, Beer & Dachshunds
Posted in Advertising, Art, Beer, Dogs on August 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Hofbräuhaus menu collected in April of 1969, with art by August Roeseler (1866-1934). He was born in Hamburg in 1866, but spent most of his life in Munich, working as a fine artist, commercial artist, illustrator for books, magazines and postcards, and as a cartoonist. In addition to his work for the Hofbräuhaus, he [...]
Kathie Returns
Posted in Art, Beer, Film on February 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
When I was a boy, I used to take the NFT bus from Kenmore to downtown Buffalo, N.Y., on Saturdays to go to the movies. And often, my friend Russell and I would stop at a used book store, I think it was on Chippewa, and look through a box of movie stills and lobby [...]
Perfect Excuse
Posted in Advertising, Art, Beer on May 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This gem from the collection of Cliff Clark who notes that the SICKDAY Surf Shop of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, adapted this from a beer label they discovered in the Orient. With a shout out to Valerie Ryan Ward, the queen of surf shop shopping.
