Centennial Bock Bier: The best can be had here – Antique Print
![Centennial Bock Bier: The best can be had here, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1876. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/36/36cc8bf92352-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Centennial Bock Bier: The best can be had here comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Currier & Ives issued this 1876 lithograph under the slogan "Centennial Bock Bier: The best can be had here," linking a German-style lager to the year of the nation's hundredth birthday. The New York firm was known for inexpensive popular prints, and in 1876 it produced many images tied to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Bock was a strong lager associated with German-American brewers, whose breweries were a large part of urban life in the 1870s. The print is a useful example of how commercial imagery borrowed the fair's patriotic moment to sell everyday goods.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1876. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1039. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,324 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-119087 |
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