312 & 314 Fulton St. / Chicago, IL
The Townsend Hostetter & Co. was established in the late 1800’s era located in Chicago, IL. The advertising signs they produced were full color metal tin tacker signs, late bar back sign and displays, as well as tin-over-cardboard signs.
Townsend Hostetter & Company produced a large variety of signs for various businesses and industries across the country. Some of the clients of Townsend Hostetter was industries like breweries, whiskey distillers, rye distillers, spirit distillers, wineries, tobacco growers, cigar makers, soda makers, clothing manufacturers, fashion, silk mills, and writing ink makers just to name a few.
Breweries were one of their larger industry clients to hire Townsend Hostetter to produce advertising sign to promote both the brewery as well as the products of beer, ale, and porter they they produced. Just some of the known clients were breweries like Schlitz, Minneapolis, Lemp, Lebanon, Sprenger, Wacker, Rettig, Lauer, and Yuengling just to name a few.
Below are a few examples of Townsend Hostetter & Company signs:
