Cincinnati, OH
The Tuchfarber Company was established by Frank Tuchfarber in 1881 located in Cincinnati, OH. At the time Tuchfarber Co. had made a name for themselves for making lithographs on both paper, metal, wood, and glass as well as manufacturing enamel iron show cards. Eventually, they changed the name of the business to F. Tuchfarber.
Various companies took a liking to what F. Tuchfarber Co. was producing at the time and were contracted to make advertising items. Among these companies were a wide variety of breweries from across the country; they hired Tuchfarber to produce advertising signs that would advertise both the brewery as well as the products that they sold.
They eventually stopped production and closed their doors for good in 1900. They closed due to a lack of sales and high production costs as well as major competition from other local sign makers and lithographers like Cincinnati Sandblast Company located in Cincinnati, OH, and Dawes Manufacturing Company located in Pittsburgh, PA which all produced similar signs.
They produced various advertising signs on glass, tin, and paper primarily for the brewing industry. Some of the brewers that F. Tuchfarber Co. produced signs for were breweries like Deppen Brewing Company, Barbey’s Inc Brewery, Reading Brewing Company, Lauer Brewing Company, Sprenger Brewing Company, Flock Brewing Company, Bergner & Engel Brewing Company, Stegmaier Brewing Company, Columbia Brewing Company, Yuengling Brewing Company, Thomas Ryan Brewing Company, Denver Brewing Company, Eigenbrot Brewery, Schlitz Brewing Company, Pabst Brewing Company, Park Brewery, Jungs Brewing Company, Gerke Brewing Company, Gambrinus Brewing Company, Iroquois Brewing Company, Wm. J. Lemp Brewing Company, Schaefer Meyer Brewing Company, Theo Hamms Brewing Company, Fred Miller Brewing Company, Germania Brewing Company, Dubuque Brewing and Malting Company, Bartholomay Brewing Company, Metz Brothers Brewing Company, Bass Brewing Company, and Pabst Brewing Company just to name a few.
Below are a few examples of their signs: