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Fresh and cold--Direct from the North Pole / Lith. by A. Hoen & Co. – Historic Reproduction

Fresh and cold--Direct from the North Pole / Lith. by A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore : F. Klemm, c1877. — antique lithograph
Fresh and cold--Direct from the North Pole / Lith. by A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore : F. Klemm, c1877.. Antique lithograph from the Wine, Beer & Spirits collection.

(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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A window into the past: Fresh and cold--Direct from the North Pole / Lith. by A. Hoen & Co., preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Fresh and cold--Direct from the North Pole / Lith. by A. Hoen & Co.

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The polar bear is what sets this color lithograph apart: its title promises beer "fresh and cold, direct from the North Pole." Printed in Baltimore around 1877 by A. Hoen & Co. for the publisher F. Klemm, it belongs to the wave of colorful lithographs that brewers and dealers used to advertise their drinks in the 1870s. Baltimore had a large German-American brewing community then, and the Hoen firm was among the city's notable color printers, so the piece reflects both local commerce and the playful exaggeration typical of period advertising. Its focus on cold beer points to a selling point that mattered long before reliable home refrigeration.

Created / publishedBaltimore : F. Klemm, c1877.
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenreAdvertisements 1870-1880.Lithographs Color 1870-1880.
Notes7385 H U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by F. Klemm. check Barbara, this is an old record from 1996, but there is a second card behind the first one, so I didn't know if it meant there were two items? I put a sleeve around the 2 cards
SubjectsPolar bears--1870-1880. Beer--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,159 × 1,465 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218343

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