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Robertson's Genuine Bourbon Cordial, Harrison Co., Kentucky / R.E. Stevens ; Lee Mallory. – Vintage Print

Robertson's Genuine Bourbon Cordial, Harrison Co., Kentucky / R.E. Stevens ; Lee Mallory., c1857. — antique lithograph
Robertson's Genuine Bourbon Cordial, Harrison Co., Kentucky / R.E. Stevens ; Lee Mallory., c1857.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Robertson's Genuine Bourbon Cordial, Harrison Co., Kentucky / R.E. Stevens ; Lee Mallory., preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Robertson's Genuine Bourbon Cordial, Harrison Co., Kentucky / R.E. Stevens ; Lee Mallory.

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This c1857 lithograph is a bottle label for Robertson's Genuine Bourbon Cordial, a product tied to Harrison County, Kentucky, in the state's whiskey-making country. Its record credits R.E. Stevens, who held the copyright, and Lee Mallory alongside him. Labels like this were printed in quantity and pasted onto bottles, so they served as both a brand's signature and a small advertisement aimed at shoppers at mid-century. Advertising ephemera from the 1850s like this one survives less often than books or newspapers, which makes it useful for seeing how liquor was marketed before the Civil War.

Created / publishedc1857.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLabels 1850-1860.Lithographs 1850-1860.
NotesCopyright by R.E. Stevens.
SubjectsAdvertisements--1850-1860. Whiskey--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,666 × 3,821 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220070

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