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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
  • This page highlights some interesting historical ephemera pertaining to the Lemp Brewing Company of Saint Louis, Missouri.

    The first item worthy of mention is the Lemp postcard booklet; The individual postcards themselves are fairly common, but the postcard booklet from which they originally came is extremely rare and very few complete examples seem to have survived to present day. The Lemp postcard booklet is notable for a variety of reasons, primarily because it is the most descriptive and complete single piece of documentation that the Lemp Brewery ever produced about itself, as far as I can tell. It appears to be the first published collection of photographs of the brewery and each postcard is divided by a descriptive page. The booklet itself is decorated in colorful artwork on its covers and folds out to reveal a "toast" written across its three cover pages inside of which, the reader is given a tour of the brewery through its brief historical and descriptive commentary which accompanies the photos on the postcards. This particular example is from my personal collection.

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    The Lemp Brewery Postcards copyright 2024 sublunar. Note: This description contains a typo; The pictured boilers are 400 HP (each), not 4000.

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    The next item I've chosen to highlight here includes examples of the full color Lemp Beer Bottle Labels. These are from the Lemp Toasts Booklets which come up for sale from time to time. This one is also from my personal collection.

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