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Cocktail History Collection

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: If you use this heading, please use Cocktails--History (LSCH) and History of Food and Drink (local), too.

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

"An Ideal Home" Illustrated Scrapbook,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-026
Abstract

The collection consists of an illustrated scrapbook, detailing the set up for a household, possibly compiled for a new bride or a school assignment.

Dates: c.1940s?

Anti-Saloon League of Virginia Notice

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-039
Abstract

This collection includes an undated Notice of Temperate Meetings held by Rev. J. W. West, Field Secretary of the Anti-Saloon League of Virginia. It includes subjects discussed and testimonials and probably dates between 1903-1909. The Anti-Saloon League of Virginia existed from 1901 to 1933, at the end of prohibition.

Dates: ca. 1903-1909

H.L. Armstrong Cocktail Recipe Book

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-021
Abstract

This binder includes a homemade, alphabetized collection of Prohibition-era cocktail recipes. The front page lists the date September 19th, 1932, and the creator, H.L. Armstrong.

Dates: 1932

Bartender's Cocktail Mixing Notebook [San Francisco, CA]

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2019-002
Abstract

The Bartender's Cocktail Mixing Notebook [San Francisco, CA] contains typed cocktail recipes with directions for their creation in a small binder. Different sections include lesson plans for specific types of drinks, suggesting this was used in a bartending school or for bartending instruction.

Dates: n.d.

General John C. Breckinridge Note (Distilling)

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-082
Abstract

The collection consists of a note to General John C. Breckinridge for permission to distill rye whiskey for medicinal and pharmaceutical purposes.

Dates: 1864

Frank Leslie Campbell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1980-005
Abstract

This collection includes wine bottle labels collected by Frank Campbell, an entomologist with the National Academy of Science - National Research Council, and a manuscript draft of his European travel memoir, titled "Better Late."

Dates: 1953 - 1979

Cocktail Ephemera Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-027
Abstract

The Cocktail Ephemera Collection is a collection that was created in 2013. The collection consists of materials in a variety of formats (i.e., postcards, pamphlets, and adverstising ephemera) relating to the history of the cocktails, spirits, and wine, dating from the about the 1870s to the present.

Dates: c.1870s-2000s

Cocktail Manual (Typed)

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-027
Abstract

This resource is a typed instruction manual for creating cocktails from the 1950s. It includes ingredients, desciptions about how to make cocktails, glassware and tools, as well as prices.

Dates: After 1951

Joseph G. Dill Letter to Daniel C. E. Brady

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-044
Abstract

The collection consists of a letter from Joseph G. Dill to Daniel C. E. Brady, written from Richmond, Virginia, on May 30, 1862. Dill writes Brady on a variety of topics including recent war news, the challenges of sending mail through conflict zones, a recent fishing party, the warther, and the price of goods.

Dates: 1863

El Mirador Hotel Cocktail Menu

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-040
Abstract

This collection contains an undated cocktail menu for the South Pacific Room of the El Mirador Hotel. The menu's cover depicts South Pacific art and the El Mirador Hotel name. On the inside the menu shows colorful depictions of the cocktails offered by the hotel bar. The name and price of each drink is written below the drink depictions.

Dates: n.d.