Moerlein Brewery employees
Title |
Moerlein Brewery employees |
Subject |
Cincinnati (Ohio) Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor Brewing industry Breweries |
Time Period |
1850s |
Place |
Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio) |
Description |
Employees of the Christian Moerlein Brewery, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, ca. 1850-1859. Christian Moerlein was born in Truppack, Bavaria, in 1818. He immigrated to the United States in 1841, eventually settling in Cincinnati in 1842. In 1853, Moerlein established a brewery in Over-the-Rhine, a predominantly German neighborhood in Cincinnati. In its first year of operation, the Christian Moerlein Brewing Company produced one thousand barrels of beer, but only a decade later, the brewery was producing more than twenty-six thousand barrels of beer per year. The Christian Moerlein Brewing Company continued to operate after Moerlein's death in 1897, but he brewery closed its doors with the enactment of Prohibition in 1920. Moerlein was reintroduced in Cincinnati in 1981 and is still in production today. |
Date of Original |
ca. 1850-1859 |
Collection |
Christian Moerlein Brewing Co. Collection |
Source |
SC 1421 |
Format |
Picture Photographic Print (Black and White) |
Submitting Institution |
Ohio History Connection |
Rights |
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information |
Type |
StillImage |
File Name |
AL04144.tif |
Image Height |
2800 |
Image Width |
2800 |
File Size |
4962188 Bytes |
Date created |
2011-08-04 |
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