The Effects of the New Liquor Law by Kimmel and Forster
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1865
name: label: lithographer; publisher
content: Kimmel and Forster
notes: label: Description
content: This hand-colored print depicts an exterior scene of a man and woman pushing a baby carriage down a street. The man is smoking a long Meerschaum pipe and carries a walking stick. The baby sits on a keg of lager; the man has a keg strapped to his back, and a little boy trails behind drinking a mug of beer and carrying a small keg over his shoulder. A small dog approaches a foaming mug of beer in the street behind the boy. In the left background a group of people rally around a lager banner. In the right background a man has fallen to the ground and raises an arm to a woman passerby.
label: Description
content: This print was produced by the lithography firm of Kimmel and Forster. Christopher Kimmel was an engraver, lithographer, and printer active in New York City from 1850-1876. He was born in Germany around 1830. Kimmel became a member of the New York engraving firm of Capewell & Kimmel from 1853 to 1860 with British born Samuel Capewell, and then partnered with Thomas Forster in 1865, forming the lithography firm of Kimmel & Forster, which was active until 1871.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Architecture, Commercial Buildings
label: Subject
content: Drinking
label: Subject
content: Glasses
label: Subject
content: Reform Movements
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content: Carriages
label: Subject
content: Architecture, Domestic Buildings
label: Subject
content: Political Caricatures
label: Subject
content: Temperance
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Temperance Movement
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content: Art
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.2952
label: catalog number
content: 60.2952
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 12 1/4 in x 17 1/4 in; 31.115 cm x 43.815 cm