Alcohol Collection (page 11)

Two monks with barrel on a comic German greetings card. (1 of 2) Date: early 20th century

Humanised bottles and fruit on a Christmas card
Humanised 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 card
Man 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 card
Man 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, Cornwall
Customer and barman at the Halfway House pub, Rame, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Myers Inn and Liquor Store, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies
Myers Planters Punch Inn and Liquor Store, Sugar Wharf, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Date: circa 1938

Dionysus. Bust. 2nd century AD. Marble
Greek mythology. Dionysus. God of wine. Roman statue. 2nd century AD. Marble. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen, Denmark

Bacchus with satyr and panther. Marble
Bacchus (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 Africa
Cocktail Lounge, Tudor House Hotel, Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa. Date: circa 1940s

Spain - A Lady from Andalusia
Spain - 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 Museums
Dionysus, 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-Quina
Poster 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 card
Harlequin 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, WW1
Cartoon, 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, Eccles
A 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, WW1
Cartoon, 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 cartoon
An 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 Galans
Les 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 Bairnsfather
A 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, WW1
British and French soldiers enjoying a drink together on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

A Poitin still - Northern Ireland
A 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 advert
Castle Beers, South Africa, 1908 Date: 1908

The worship of Bacchus, or, the drinking customs of society. Published 1864

Brenda Dean Paul, socialite and notorious drug addict, pictured here in 1931 in her party frock at a costume ball given by Mr. Arthur Jeffress

Industrial Farm Colony, Duxhurst, Surrey
Inmates at the Industrial Farm Colony for Female Inebriates, Duxhurst, Surrey. Founded in 1895 by Lady Henry Somerset, the colony provided care for women alcoholics

Three women playing cards at a table
Three middle aged women playing cards at a table. They are playing for money, and there are three half-empty glasses of sherry

Scene in the Blue Anchor, Helston, Cornwall
Locals enjoying a pint (or a swift half) in the Blue Anchor pub in Helston, Cornwall

Titanic glassware
A box of wine or sherry glasses from the ill-fated Titanic cruise ship, which sank on 15 April 1912

Order of Rechabites 1898
Membership certificate for the Independent Order of Rechabites, a society of abstainers from alcohol

A Christmas Party / Wain
A group of naughty cats go bonkers at their annual Christmas bash. Cats and alcohol clearly don t mix

Barclays lager advert for light or dark

Four frogs in red tailcoats on a cutout Christmas card, raising their glasses in a toast. circa 1890s

British beer versus American cocktails, 1929
British beer versus American cocktails at Olivia Wyndhams hospitable bar. Miss Jean Baird and Miss Gwen Farrar support beer

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