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Beer In Ads #2051: Purity Built It

October 2, 2016 By Jay Brooks


Sunday’s ad is for Schlitz, from 1900. In this ad, the story of the Schlitz Brewery’s honest is told, that and how “Purity Built It.” That, along with the illustration of pure-looking woman astride an unusually large bottle (unless she’s extraordinarily diminutive) and holding up another symbol of purity, the flower.

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, History, Schlitz



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