Fred Huseman Bottling Works, Soda Paper Sign, Red Bud, IL. 1920

Circa 1920 Paper advertising calendar print with a beautiful Victorian woman from the Fred Husemann Soda Bottling Company in Red Bud, Illinois.   Mr. Husemann was in business from approximately 1920 to 1960 in this town in Randolph County, IL.  The Red Bud brand had many different soda labels produced over the years for the various syrups that Mr. Husemann sold from this business.   There are also metal or tin signs advertising his Red Bud Brand of Sodas that are found from time to time for sale at various auctions.

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