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 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 Four handwritten recipes for liquor, most likely used during Prohibition. Recipes for:SWEDISH RAISIN JACK: Brown Sugar, Rye or Cornmeal, Seedless Raisins, Yeast, etc. The recipe says it was copied from the Swedish Monthly Paper - TEKNISK TIDSKIRIFT, Feb. 1923. REAL OLD GORDON GIN, with a recipe for a Gin Ricky at the end. Two recipes are written on Hotel stationary from the MANSION HOUSE, Reading PA. The first of these recipes is for a peach liquor, the other is for FRED'S MASH...