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 Historical Society
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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