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King George V head and shoulders on a silk postcardThere were various different types of sllk cards - woven, embroidered and machine woven. The King and Queen set an example in all things from digging for Victory to abstinence from alcohol
Artwork, three men dining at a table Date: 1942
Drunkard and bottle with comic verse on a Christmas cardDrunkard giving a red pillar box a cigar and a drink from a bottle, with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Barrel of beer with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Man with glass of wine on a Christmas cardMan with a glass of wine on a white embossed Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Comic postcard, drunkard in cemetery Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Man enjoying a drink or two in the countryside Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Middle aged couple with champagne Date: 20th century
Post-pub scene on a comic German greetings card - four men urinating in the moonlight. (2 of 2) Date: early 20th century
Pub scene with barrel on a comic German greetings cardPub scene with beer barrel, landlord and customers on a comic German greetings card. (1 of 2) Date: early 20th century
Two monks with barrel on a comic German greetings card. (1 of 2) Date: early 20th century
Humanised bottles and fruit on a Christmas cardHumanised bottles and fruit contributing to a bowl of punch on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s
Man in cellar on a comic German greetings cardMan in a cellar on a comic German greetings card, holding a bottle and a glass of wine. (1 of 2) circa 1890s
Man with a glass of champagne on a cutout Christmas card -- May you of pleasures have a host. Date: circa 1890s
Man with champagne bottle on a Christmas cardMan with a humanised champagne bottle on a Christmas and New Year card -- Champagne and Real Pain. Date: circa 1890s
New Year card in the shape of a jug of rum. Date: circa 1890s
Greetings card in the shape of two wine bottles. Date: circa 1890s
Comic Postcard - Perils of the Demon Drink - Hallucinations caused by taking Littel drops of Whisky and Little Drops of Beer !! Date: circa 1903
Customer and barman, Halfway House, Rame, CornwallCustomer and barman at the Halfway House pub, Rame, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s
Myers Inn and Liquor Store, Kingston, Jamaica, West IndiesMyers Planters Punch Inn and Liquor Store, Sugar Wharf, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Date: circa 1938
Dionysus. Bust. 2nd century AD. MarbleGreek mythology. Dionysus. God of wine. Roman statue. 2nd century AD. Marble. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen, Denmark
Bacchus with satyr and panther. MarbleBacchus (Roman) also known as Dionysus (Greek). God of the grape harvest in classical mythology. Statue of Bacchus with satyr and panther. From roman Villa of Pozzuoli, near Naples, Italy
Tudor House Hotel, Mombasa, Kenya, East AfricaCocktail Lounge, Tudor House Hotel, Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa. Date: circa 1940s
Spain - A Lady from AndalusiaSpain - A Lady from the autonomous community of Andalusia, in traditional costume and tucking into a bottle of something strong, not unlike herself... Date: circa 1910s
Advertisement for M&B All Bright beer -- male model pouring beer from a bottle into a glass. 1959
Scene in a French bistro. Date: 1960s
Advertisement for Courvoisier brandy -- the brandy of Napoleon. Date: circa 1930s
Dionysus, god of wine. Vatican MuseumsDionysus, god of wine. Relief of roman sarcophagus depicting Dionysos with Maenad, satyr and Panther. Vatican Museums. City of the Vatican
The Toast - Elizabethan men drinking and merrymaking. circa early 17th century
Poster, Bonal Aperitif Gentiane-QuinaPoster advertising Bonal, a French aperitif wine from the mountains of the Grande Chartreuse. Date: circa 1935
Stealing Pantalones food on a Christmas and New Year cardHarlequin and Columbine stealing Pantalones food and drink on a Christmas and New Year card (they are passing it through the windows to a Clown on the other side). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s
Cartoon, Enigma, WW1Cartoon, Enigma. A French soldier says he doesn t understand it -- hes drunk nothing but Pinard (cheap wine or plonk) since the war started, and now hes got water on the knee! Date: 1916
Drayman lowers crate of beer into pub cellar, EcclesA drayman lowers a crate of beer into the cellar of The Grapes public house in Peel Green, Eccles, Manchester. Date: circa 1977
Cartoon, Women also profiteer, WW1Cartoon, Women also profiteer. Showing how women are also profiting from the war, either by socialising with servicemen or selling them expensive flowers, food and drink. Date: 1916
American anti-gambling cartoonAn American anti-gambling cartoon, showing a Rum-Soaked Old Sport sitting at a table. The verse below ends: It would be very hard to find / A more worthless, useless sample of mankind. Date: 1906
Label for Big Cat, Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, bottled by General Distillers Corporation of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Date: circa 1940s
Label for Old Rampart, Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, bottled by General Distillers Corporation of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Date: circa 1940s
Label for Whipple Creek, Kentucky Corn Whiskey, bottled by General Distillers Corporation of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Date: circa 1940s
French Theatre -- Les Trois GalansLes Trois Galans [Galants] (The Three Gallants or Suitors), a farce. Showing one of the gallants sitting on a chair, holding up a glass of wine. Date: 16th century
Chamorro natives of Agagna (Hagatna), Guam, distilling alcohol.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840
Medical Reserve Cognac. Advertisement poster of brandy Fromy Rog饠 and Co.. Litography
1920s cocktail party gossip" I wonder why one always has a cherry in a cocktail?" " So that one shall not drink on an empty stomach" Witty exchanges at a well populated, glamorous
If Only We Spoke the Truth by Bruce BairnsfatherA disgruntled gentleman in evening dress thinks aloud, I wish you drank something cheaper, while glowering at his female companion who looks somewhat worse for wear due to all the champagne shes
British and French soldiers enjoying a drink, WW1British and French soldiers enjoying a drink together on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916
A Poitin still - Northern IrelandA Poitin still and a gang of rather young brewers! Northern Ireland. Date: circa 1903
Irish drinker receives warning at Taproom door from Priest" Ye re not goin into that Public House, are ye, Tim?" " Shure, oi am, Yer Riverance." " Then, do ye know the Divel in goin in wid ye." " Faith, thin
Castle Beers advertCastle Beers, South Africa, 1908 Date: 1908
The worship of Bacchus, or, the drinking customs of society. Published 1864