'The Poster"
George Ringler & Company
Artist: Not Given
Lithographer: C.W. Girsch, NYC
Copyright Date: 1898
Size: 16" x 23-1/2"
With emotions running high because of the Spanish-American War, George Ringler
obviously decided that beer and patriotism made for a good combination. And
indeed they do in this delightful 1899 poster. As stated on the poster, Ringler
founded his brewery in 1872. Its location was from East Ninetieth to East
Ninety-second Street in New York City, in the very heart of Manhattan's once
flourishing brewery district. Immediate neighbors included such lager beer
giants as Jacob Ruppert and George Ehret. George Ringler and Company survived
the first few years of Prohibition by making near beer, but this proved to be a
short-lived success, and the brewery ceased operations in the early 1920s.
--Will Anderson, The Beer Poster Book, 1976.
