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Peter Schemm & Son. Brewery, 25th & Poplar sts. Philadelphia. [graphic] / A.M.J. Mueller, del. et litho.
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Creator
Mueller, A. M. J., artist.
Contributor
Avil Printing Co., printer.
Title
Peter Schemm & Son. Brewery, 25th & Poplar sts. Philadelphia. [graphic] / A.M.J. Mueller, del. et litho.
Publisher
Philadelphia: Avil Printing Co
Date
[ca. 1887]
Physical Description
1 print: chromolithograph; 70 x 87 cm.(27.25 x 34 in.)
Description
Advertisement showing an exterior view of the brewery complex operated as Peter Schemm & Son 1887-1908 that was originally built in 1855 and expanded between 1885 and 1887. The depicted red brick buildings include the brew house, storerooms, office building, and carriage house. The roofs are adorned with a cupola, smoke stacks, an American flag, and a weather vane. One building also contains a date marker (1885). Pedestrians, including boys in baseball uniforms and a family, walk in front of the brewery. Workers convene near the entrance and handle horses at and depart with drays and wagons at driveways and cartways of the complex. A laborer pushes a handcart past several large barrels lining the sidewalk near an idle truck and a man on horseback riding in the street. A Schemm delivery wagon loaded with barrels drives past the brewery on Poplar Street across from street cars approaching and departing from the adjacent block, West College Avenue. At the opposite corner, pedestrians walk past a curved brick wall behind which a tree stands and a couple in the street wave to a male passenger at the front of the approaching street car. Neighboring buildings are visible in the background. Also contains an inset titled “City Office, 238 Race St.” showing a patron entering the building with signage advertising “Office of Schemm’s Brewery” and “C.A. Widmayer.” Barrels are piled on the sidewalk across from a man talking to another man in a militia uniform. Pictorial elements in the upper right and lower left include a full beer mug, a Schemm’s Standard Lager beer bottle, twigs of barley and hops, and a banner reading “Lager Beer” (right) and a beer cask marked “P. Schemm & Son Brewers” (left).
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 171
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 31 S 323
Subject
Peter Schemm & Son.
Brewing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Advertisements -- 1880-1890.
Associated name
Avil Printing Co., printer.
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania| Print Department| HSP at LCP| HSP Bc 31 S 323
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