The Louis Bergdoll Brewing Company

Description (Brief)
Notebook advertising piece for the Louis Bergdoll Brewing Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The notebook's plastic cover has black print on front and back. On the front is the trademark image of a griffin, and describes the products as "Old Style Lager Beer // Protiwiner Export & Lager Beer." Reverse shows as image of a factory. Inside is a history of the company, a poison antidote list, calendars for 1905-1907, various other facts and miscellania, and many blank, lined paper pages.
Location
Currently not on view
Object Name
notebook
date made
1905
advertiser
Louis Bergdoll Brewing Company
maker
Whitehead & Hoag Company
Physical Description
cellulose nitrate (overall material)
paper (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 6.5 cm x 12 cm; 2 9/16 in x 4 3/4 in
place made
United States: New Jersey, Newark
referenced
United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
ID Number
2006.0098.0756
accession number
2006.0098
catalog number
2006.0098.0756
subject
Celluloid
Advertising
Beer
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Medicine and Science: Chemistry
Celluloid
Data Source
National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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Visitor Comments

2/26/2013 7:38:19 PM
Kathy (Bergdoll-Brawn) Tidball
My grandfather (Charles Bergdoll Brawn) was one of Louis Bergdoll Jr.'s five children. He walked away from the brewery fortune and moved to California to get away from his draft dodger brothers. I grew up in California and last May I went to Philadelphia for the first time to see the Bergdoll brewery, meet family for the first time and visit the cemeteries. While I was there I was given some beer bottles from the brewery along with one of these advertising notebooks. Mine is 1903-04. I'm thrilled to own one!
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