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Ten minutes for refreshments

Description: Image of an elevated interior view of a busy restaurant counter in a train station with men in bowler and top hats frantically eating and drinking coffee and tea; a train conductor holds a pocket watch in the doorway and African-American waiters serve beverages from coffee urns labeled "The Great American Tea Co's Celebrated Sultana Coffee" and "Use the Great American Baking Powder"; portraits of United States presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are hung on the wall, and steam locomotives are visible through the open doorways; a sign on wall reads, "The Teas & Coffees used in this establishment are from the Great American Tea Co." and a sign on the door frame reads, "The bell rings 2 minutes before the train starts."
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Date: ©1886
Call number: priJLC_BEV_001067

Blue Jeans : will never wear out : written by Joseph Arthur author of "The still alarm."

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Image of a younger woman being escorted out of a doorway in the home of an older couple, while an old woman reaches out and an old man stands on a chair holding a framed picture on the wall, with a sign above the door that reads "God Bless Our Home"; the poster advertises the melodrama "Blue Jeans" written by Joseph Arthur.

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View of the English steamer Caledonia wrecked on Cape Cod, Jan. 1st. 1863

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Image of the steamship Caledonia stranded on Cape Cod; people conversing in front of small buildings, including one with the sign "Hot coffee and meals at all hours," along the shore and an American flag waving on a flagpole visible in foreground.

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Subseries B. Coffee and Tea (small size)

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The Jay T. Last collection of beverage prints and ephemera contains approximately 2,650 printed items advertising beverage products and related businesses in the United States from the 1840s to the 1940s, with the bulk of the items spanning from 1850 to 1915. The collection consists largely of lithographed ephemeral items produced for American businesses affiliated with the manufacture, distribution, and sale of beverages such as coffee, tea, juice, milk, carbonated beverages, and alcoholic drinks including beer, wine, whiskey, and other liquors. The collection includes approximately 40 large-size items comprised mainly of lithographed advertising prints and product labels for tea, coffee, and spirits. Small-size items number approximately 2,600 and contain a variety of promotional materials including trade cards, calendars, die-cut scraps, booklets, and printed billheads and letterheads with manuscript text. The collection deals with beverage production, merchandising, advertising, and consumption -- including depictions of families and other groups drinking together -- and the images provide a resource for studying the history of American beer, liquor, coffee, tea, and carbonated beverage industries along with the evolution of their advertising in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Materials in the collection produced for manufacturers and distributors of alcoholic beverages also provide a perspective on their advertising strategies in the face of a growing temperance movement in the United States leading up to Prohibition. As graphic materials, the prints offer evidence of developing techniques and trends in printmaking, and of the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.

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

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Silver spring brewery ltd., Victoria, B.C. "the life saver."

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