{"id":81,"date":"2007-05-01T22:53:34","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T02:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/2007\/05\/01\/a-pint-of-your-best-bitter-please\/"},"modified":"2007-05-01T23:08:22","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T03:08:22","slug":"a-pint-of-your-best-bitter-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/2007\/05\/01\/a-pint-of-your-best-bitter-please\/","title":{"rendered":"A pint of your best bitter, please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A question from a patron led me to look through the iconography collection for the first time. It&#8217;s six boxes full of loose prints and photographs of Johnsonian interest, and I suspect I&#8217;ll find lots of interesting things to post here. These beer labels caught my eye right away.<\/p>\n<p>After Henry Thrale&#8217;s death in 1781, Samuel Johnson (as executor of Henry&#8217;s will) and Hester Thrale sold his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thrale.com\/history\/english\/hester_and_henry\/brewery\/index.php\">Anchor Brewer<\/a>y to the newly formed Barclay Perkins &amp; Co., who would operate it until their 1955 merger with Courage Ltd., later <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottish-newcastle.com\/\">Scottish &amp; Newcastle<\/a>. On a visit to England in 1950, the Hydes visited the Anchor Brewery, and later obtained these Barclay Perkins beer labels which pay tribute to the brewery&#8217;s connection with Samuel Johnson.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Barclay Perkins beer labels\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2007\/05\/Beerlabels.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Barclay Perkins letter to Donald Hyde\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2007\/05\/BarclayPerkins.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A question from a patron led me to look through the iconography collection for the first time. It&#8217;s six boxes full of loose prints and photographs of Johnsonian interest, and I suspect I&#8217;ll find lots of interesting things to post here. These beer labels caught my eye right away. After Henry Thrale&#8217;s death in 1781, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-overholt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}