Scope and Content From the Collection: 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...

Scope and Content

Eight cocktail napkins with printed illustrations, in the manner of Jazz Age cartoonist, John Held, Jr. Printed in red, blue, yellow, green, and pink, comic scenes are drawn in a mock-archaic style: carousers sing and drink; a man rides a velocipede, a cop drinks a beer, a drunk man leans on a wooden cigar statue.