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We have culled these advertisements from two editions of the Hamburg American Line (aka Hapag Lloyd) guide to Europe from 1896 and 1900. The former is available through Archive.org while the latter (stinky and falling apart) is in our own collection.
(When did you last see a hotel using its beer offer as selling point?)
GALLERY: European Beer, 1890s


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