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A white-beer room, Berlin, 1873. Creator: Unknown.

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A white-beer room, Berlin, 1873. '...there are an endless number of shady beer-gardens in the very heart of the city...the basement of every fifth house is a "Bier-Local" or a "Wein-Stube;" cellars where inebriating liquids are consumed. This ingenious system of hiding the insobriety of the capital from the general gaze is certainly peculiar...Whether it is due to a sense of shame on the part of the Berlinese themselves, or whether it is the authorities who prescribe this concealment of one the vices of the capital behind brick walls and in the bowels of the earth, might be difficult to say...Here crowd the lovers of that very frothy beverage which at Berlin is called white beer. The landlord, who is pouring it out of a stone bottle into a big goblet of glass, was once a favourite comic actor, but retired from the stage ten years ago. The company..are of mixed ranks and characters; among these topers are the pensioned old soldier, the city tradesman, the University student, the counting house clerk, and the street porter in his uniform of service. They all imbibe the refreshing draught of white beer, and inhale the atmosphere of this cellar, heavily laden with smoke of foreign or German tobacco. This is one way of seeking pleasure at Berlin'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A12_474

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Droits gérés

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46,1Mo (5,7Mo) / 41,4cm x 27,9cm / 4887 x 3299 (300dpi)

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Germany drink glass glasses people male interior man men German arts pipes pipe country pouring drinking art guy bottles reading British alcohol bar beer location century Britain speaking conversation inside newspapers press print concept landlord conversing B&W liquor metaphor engraved engraving 19th century Indoors black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News old boy network wood engraving ILN newspaper bottle talking Unknown old boys' club old boys' network 19th-century The Illustrated London News Loeffler Weizenbier white beer