The Effects of the New Liquor Law by Kimmel and Forster

This hand-colored print depicts an 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 carrying a small keg over his shoulder. A small dog approaches a foaming mug of beer in the street behind the boy. In the left background a group of people rally around a lager banner. In the right background a man has fallen to the ground and raises an arm to a woman passerby.

This print was produced by the lithography firm of Kimmel and Forster. Christopher Kimmel was an engraver, lithographer, and printer active in New York City from 1850-1876. He was born in Germany around 1830. Kimmel became a member of the New York engraving firm of Capewell & Kimmel from 1853 to 1860 with British born Samuel Capewell, and then partnered with Thomas Forster in 1865, forming the lithography firm of Kimmel & Forster, which was active until 1871.

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