Visual Materials

Genuine Belfast ginger ale : G. D. Dows & Co. 55, Sudbury St. Boston

Description: Image of a bottle rack on a table with three bottles of Belfast ginger ale displayed next to a glass filled with the beverage; image surrounded by a frame illustrated to resemble a wooden vanity mirror frame with medallions for awards to G.D. Dows & Company from the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association in 1865 and the New England Agricultural Society in 1872.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1873-1874
Call number: priJLC_BEV_001855
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance

The American ginger ale manufactured by Coburn, Lang & Co. 100 Worcester & 116 Water Streets. Boston, Mass

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for Coburn, Lang & Company ginger ale featuring a family sitting around a dining room table in a parlor setting; a man standing at the table pours ginger ale while a woman approaches the group with a tray full of cups in hand, other members of the family look on, and a child sits on the floor; ginger ale bottles flank the scene on either side in the frame with interlocking letters for C L & Co. below each bottle.

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Belfast ginger ale. : Mineral water. Manufactured by Moses Fairbanks and Co. Howard Athenaeum Building Howard St. Boston

Visual Materials

Image of a barrel and bottle room with machinery and a man operating it inside a stone arched doorway that frames the scene; bottles and barrels of cream ale, mineral water, syrup, and stock ale rest on a stone ledge that forms the bottom of the image frame advertising for Moses Fairbanks and Company in Boston, Massachusetts.

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"Up and going" "Excelsior" ginger ale made by John Klee Dayton, O. Joseph R. Peebles' sons, sole agents, Cincinnati, O

Visual Materials

Image of two fashionably dressed women in slim long dresses and bonnets embarking on a hot air balloon ride, one stands inside the basket holding a lace-edged handkerchief with a mustached balloon operator with a binoculars and a monocle, the other sips ginger ale from a glass as she begins to ascend a rope ladder into the craft; two African-American men with ginger ale bottles attend the balloon; a large crowd of people watches the spectacle from stands behind a white wood fence painted with advertising slogans like "Drink "Excelsior ginger ale made by John Klee Dayton Jos. R. Peebles' Sons agent Cincinnati;" wood crate boxes that read, "John Klee Excelsior Ginger Ale" are visible on the grass in the foreground.

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The first exhibition of the Middlesex Mechanic Association

Visual Materials

Image of a landscape scene on an advertisement for the first exhibition of the Mechanic Association of Middlesex, Massachusetts, showing the rural outskirts of a town with the buildings spreading out along the horizon line in an elaborate frame of sculpted flowers, leaves, and Classical figures; arm holding a hammer with scales with the caption "We aim to be just" across top of image; five small vignettes inset into the frame show a Native American man armed with bow and arrows, industrial scenes with machinery, and pastoral American West scenes with tipis.

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Van Osten and Day Concert Co. : Thos. D. Van Osten

Visual Materials

Image of a head-and-shoulders profile portrait of musician Thomas Van Osten wearing formal dress in a circular frame surrounded by flowers with an image of a double euphonium (a musical instrument similar to a tuba).

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Henriot & Co. Rheims champagne

Visual Materials

Image of a advertisement for Henriot & Co. Rheims champagne with a coupe glass and two bottles of champagne on a windowsill with bunches of grapes; bird flying just outside window with lake and mountain landscape in background.

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Genuine Belfast ginger ale : G. D. Dows & Co. 55, Sudbury St. Boston

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