Souvenir Wm. J. Lemp Brewing Co. [cover title] de [BREWING]. Lemp William J. Company

St. Louis: [The Company], ca. 1893. . Oblong 16mo, printed stiff decorated wrappers; text block secured in covers with a strip of archival tape at front and rear Four holdings in OCLC.The back cover and the map have the imprint of the Milwaukee Lithography & Printing Company. The map is dated 1893This type of attractive souvenir album was common in the late nineteenth century. "They were all manufactured in Germany by what became known as the Glaser/Frey lithographic process. The illustrations were drawn from photographs, with the lithographers making some alterations by deleting undesirable or unaesthetic elements and addingappealing additions. Louis Glaser of Leipzig and Charles Frey of Frankfurt am Main used a multi-stone lithographic process to achieve a monochromatic effect that seems to have been rare if not unknown among American lithographers. Using five or more stones, they laid down a series of separate shades ranging from white to light sepia-grey to the darkest sepia-grey or black. The finished lithograph has a varnished look that creates greater illusion of depth than a simple lithograph or toned lithograph (Ron Tyler, Unpublished Typescript on Texas Lithographs of the Nineteenth Century).Lemp's brewery was an enormously successful business with a presence, at that time, in twenty-nine states. The business foundered during Prohibition when the Lemp sons failed to diversify.