Cocktail Ephemera Collection, c.1870s-2000s (Ms2013-027)

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Title

Cocktail Ephemera Collection, c.1870s-2000s (Ms2013-027)

Subject

Cocktails--History
Ephemera
History of Food and Drink

Description

The Cocktail Ephemera Collection is a collection that was created in 2013. The collection consists of materials in a variety of formats relating to the history of the cocktails, dating from the about the 1870s to the present. Materials include advertising and promotional items; pamphlets with recipes and suggestions for entertaining (party games, themes, and more); and postcards. The focus of the collection is cocktails, but some materials also relate to wine and beer in their own right, as well as ingredients in mixed drinks.

Date

c.1870s-2000s

Rights

Permission to publish material from Cocktail Ephemera Collection must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.

Access Rights

Collection is open for research.

Language

English
French
German
Russian

Type

Ephemera

Identifier

Ms2013_027_CocktailEphemera

Bibliographic Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Cocktail Ephemera Collection, Ms2013-027, Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Rights Holder

Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Collection Items

Tolu Rock and Rye standing display
<p>Tolu Rock and Rye appears to have a short history of distribution between 1880 and 1881 (possibly a little later) as a patent medicine.</p> <p>Classification of the drink as a medicine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries…
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