An 1876 Currier & Ives lithograph, made in the American Centennial year, that a saloon could display to announce bock beer 'can be had here' — it names no single brewery. A period stock advertising print rather than a brewery mark; its publisher, the famous firm of Currier & Ives, itself closed in 1907, and the pre-Prohibition bock-poster genre disappeared after 1920. The blank where a brewery name would go — this is the generic window card any tavern bought by the bundle, the substrate the whole trade ran on. It advertised no one, so it outlived everyone.

Maker: Currier & Ives
Date: 1876
Medium of the original: Broadside
Original held by: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00568

As chosen: 24 x 18 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	24 x 18 in
Outside size	25.6 x 19.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
10 x 8 in	669	Excellent	Edge to edge
14 x 11 in	478	Excellent	Trimmed 1.8%
16 x 12 in	418	Excellent	Trimmed 6.2%
20 x 16 in	334	Excellent	Edge to edge
24 x 18 in	279	Excellent	Trimmed 6.2%
30 x 24 in	223	Excellent	Edge to edge
40 x 30 in	167	Good	Trimmed 6.2%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
12 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
18 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
24 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
30 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
36 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
48 x 36 in	139 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

6,701 x 5,359 px, srgb, Adobe RGB (1998)

Tone

Darks 93, lights 229 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

118.87

Notes

Colour profile Adobe RGB (1998), converted to sRGB for the screen and the print
Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned

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