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The Effects of the New Liquor Law

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Date made: ca. 1865
Maker: Kimmel and Forster
Place: New York, New York
Image size: Image: 12 1/4 x 17 1/4 in.; 31.115 x 43.815 cm
ID number: DL*60.2952
Negative number: 2003-32007


Description:

Colored print; 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 carrrying a keg over his shoulder. A small dog approaches a foaming mug of beer that is in the street behind the boy. In the left background, a group of people rallying around a lager banner. In the right background a man has fallen to the ground and raises an arm to a women passerby.