Kaiser Pillows
Description: DREI KAISER WAS THE FLAGSHIP BEER OF THE UPPER PENINSULA BREWING COMPANY IN THE LATE 1800S/EARLY 1900S. THE UPBC WAS PRODUCING 20,000-25,000 BBLS OF DREI KAISER ANNUALLY. NEEDLESS TO SAY THIS BEER WAS POPULAR IN THE REGION. AFTER THE ONSET OF WWI THE NAME WAS CHANGED TO CASTLE BREW AND BREWED IN MASS UNTIL PROHIBITION CLOSED THE BREWERY.
Description: A powerful satire by renowned American illustrator Charles Dana Gibson, published on the cover of Life magazine during World War I. The pen-and-ink drawing features Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany aggressively dancing with a skeletal personification of Death. Meanwhile, a blindfolded woman representing Peace sits neglected on a bench like a wallflower, left holding her olive branch alone in the corner of the ballroom. circa 1917
