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LEMP ST LOUIS

Table of Contents

  • The Lemp Brewery
  • Lemp/Cherokee Cave
  • Western Cable Railway
  • Lemp Mansion
  • Lemp Ephemera
  • Lemp Advertisements
  • Myths and Rumors
  • The Lemp Mansion Cave Connection
  • The Ghost Photo
  • Historic Advertisements of the Lemp Brewery

    This is a small selection of advertisements and miscellaneous related images I've come across while researching the Lemp Brewery. I had no interest/intention of specifically collecting advertisements for this article but while I already had these saved I thought I'd share them here.

    The first group of ads are actual Lemp commissioned advertisements. Included among them are lithographs which show the progression of the brewery from the 1870s through the 1890s (albeit with some substantial exaggerations). The second group of ads are simply products/equipment in use by the Lemp brewery whose ads I found whilst researching them as part of my effort to identify what I could of the equipment visible in photographs.

    Historic Lemp Brewery Saint Louis Advertisement
    Lemp's Western Brewery as depicted in the 1870's.

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    Lemp's Western Brewery as depicted in the 1880's.

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    Lemp Brewery as depicted in the 1890's, following the 1892 name change and the 1896 trademark application.

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    Historic Lemp Brewery Saint Louis Logo. The thing that struck me about this one was that their phone number was included. It seems like they were around so long ago that phones are too modern an invention. But in fact, by 1898, the Lemp Brewery was averaging 100 telephone calls per day.

    Historic Lemp Brewery Saint Louis Trademark
    Lemp Shield Logo Trademark Registration, 1896. [This photo courtesy The Library of Congress]

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    Below are advertisements for products used by the Lemp Brewery

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