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Jay T. Last Collection of Beverage Prints and Ephemera: Finding Aid

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Collection Contents

Series I. Beverage Prints and Ephemera (small size) 1840-1930

Physical Description: approximately 3,175 items in 22 binders and in 1 flat-top box

Scope and Content

This series contains approximately 3,175 small-size printed items that pertain to the beverage industries and related products in the United States from approximately 1840-1930. The materials consist of advertising and promotional ephemera, illustrations, and business records related to beverage industries.

The beverage-affiliated entities represented in this series include breweries, distilleries, liquor distributors, tea and coffee merchants, milk suppliers and dairies, and water and ice companies. Item types include trade cards, die-cut scraps, calendars, booklets, product labels, and printed billheads and letterheads with manuscript text.

The materials in this series either promote or are broadly connected to beverage-related products, services, or sponsoring businesses. Many of the images depict bottles, barrels, and drinks, though the collection also has a wide variety of other images, including young women; animals; children and families; comic scenes and caricatures of ethnic groups such as Chinese, Native American Indians and African Americans; views of buildings and landscapes; and patriotic symbols and vignettes.

Items are arranged mainly by product type and then alphabetically according to company name. Groupings include: Beer, Liquor, and Wine; Coffee and Tea; Juice (including ciders and cider vinegars), Soda, and Water (including ice); and Milk. Items smaller than 8 x 10 inches are housed in binders, while items that are between 8 x 10 inches and 11 x 14 inches in size are individually sleeved and arranged in folders in one box.

Arrangement

This series is grouped into 4 subseries:

Subseries A. Beer, Liquor, and Wine (small size)
Subseries B. Coffee and Tea (small size)
Subseries C. Juice, Soda, and Water (small size)
Subseries D. Milk (small size)

Subseries A. Beer, Liquor, and Wine (small size)

Binder 1

Beer, A-D by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 120 items

Binder 2

Beer, E-N by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 110 items

Binder 20

Beer, O-Z by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 100 items

Binder 21

Beer, supplies and services, A-Z by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 70 items

Box 1, Folder 1

Beer (between 8 x 10 inches and 11 x 14 inches in size)

Physical Description: under 5 items

Binder 14

Liquor and Wine, A-D by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 110 items

Binder 15

Liquor and Wine, E-H by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 120 items

Binder 16

Liquor and Wine, I-P by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 120 items

Binder 17

Liquor and Wine, Q-S by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 90 items

Binder 18

Liquor and Wine, T-Z by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 65 items

Box 1, Folder 2

Liquor and Wine (between 8 x 10 inches and 11 x 14 inches in size)

Physical Description: approximately 15 items

Note

Select items in this folder have been fully cataloged and are listed below.

priJLC_BEV_003495 Pleasant Valley Wine Co. approximately 1878-1891

Printers: Cosack & Co.

priJLC_BEV_004570 Indian Peach manufactured by Ford & Brother Lynchburg, Va. after 1866

Printers: Calvert Lithographing Co. (Detroit, Mich.)

priJLC_BEV_004571 Honey and Peach. 1874

Printers: Heppenheimer & Maurer

priJLC_BEV_004572 Cloud's invigorating cordial. after 1866

Printers: Calvert Lithographing Co. (Detroit, Mich.)

priJLC_BEV_004723 Pleasant Valley Wine Co. approximately 1878-1891

Printers: Cosack & Co.

Subseries B. Coffee and Tea (small size)

Binder 3

Coffee and Tea, A-C by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 130 items

Binder 4

Coffee and Tea, D-F by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 245 items

Binder 5

Coffee and Tea, G-L by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 195 items

Binder 6

Coffee and Tea, M-Z by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 270 items

Binder 7

Coffee and Tea, Arbuckle (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 345 items

Binder 8

Coffee and Tea, Atlantic-Pacific (1) (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 180 items

Binder 9

Coffee and Tea, Atlantic-Pacific (2) (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 55 items

Binder 10

Coffee and Tea, McLaughlin (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 260 items

Binder 11

Coffee and Tea, Woolson-Lion Coffee (1) (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 160 items

Binder 12

Coffee and Tea, Woolson-Lion Coffee (2) (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 60 items

Box 1, Folder 3

Coffee and Tea (between 8 x 10 inches and 11 x 14 inches in size)

Physical Description: approximately 25 items

Note

Select items in this folder have been fully cataloged and are listed below.

priJLC_BEV_003512 Griswold's ground Santos coffee. approximately 1863-1875

priJLC_BEV_003513 Our Favorite tea. after 1881

priJLC_BEV_003514 Preciosa English breakfast tea. after 1881

priJLC_BEV_003515 Progress tea. after 1881

Subseries C. Juice, Soda, and Water (small size)

Scope and Content Note

Within this subseries, ciders are grouped with juice, and ice products are grouped with water.

Binder 13

Juice and Soda, A-Z by product (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 140 items

Binder 22

Water, A-Z by product (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 75 items

Box 1, Folder 4

Juice, Soda, and Water (between 8 x 10 inches and 11 x 14 inches in size)

Physical Description: approximately 5 items

Note

Select items in this folder have been fully cataloged and are listed below.

priJLC_BEV_003520 Allen's root beer on draught. approximately 1919-1920

priJLC_BEV_003521 California orange sugar makes delicious orangeade. after 1891

Subseries D. Milk (small size)

Binder 19

Milk, A-Z by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 105 items

Related Material

Items related to chocolate milk can be found with chocolate products in the Jay T. Last Collection of Food Prints and Ephemera.

Series II. Beverage Prints and Ephemera (large size) approximately 1841-1940s

Physical Description: approximately 65 items

Scope and Content

This series contains approximately 65 large-size advertising and promotional items related to beverage industries in the United States from approximately 1841 to the 1940s, with the majority of items spanning from 1850 to 1912. The series is comprised mainly of lithographed advertising prints produced for beverage distilleries, manufacturers, and distributors. Genres represented include advertising prints, views of factories and storefronts, and product labels for tea, coffee, and spirits. The prints are mostly color-printed lithographs, but the series also includes uncolored and hand-colored images. Among the earliest items is an uncolored depiction of the four-story storefront of tea and coffee merchants Hawthorn & Company from after 1841 (BEV_001209). The most recent item is a die-cut circular product label for Radio Food Corp. roller process skim milk powder from circa the 1940s (BEV_001859).

Arrangement

This series is grouped into 4 subseries according to product type:

Subseries A. Subseries A. Beer, Liquor, and Wine (large size)
Subseries B. Coffee and Tea (large size)
Subseries C. Juice, Soda, and Water (large size)
Subseries D. Milk (large size)

Within each subseries, items are arranged numerically by call number and described in the following format:

Title of print. Date
Artist(s) (when known). Printer(s). Publisher(s).

Subseries A. Beer, Liquor, and Wine (large size)

priJLC_BEV_000588

C.L. Centlivre Brewing Co., incorporated. after 1896