Advertisement for John Jameson Whiskey, "We greet a new king – Historic Print
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A window into the past: Advertisement for John Jameson Whiskey, "We greet a new king, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Advertisement for John Jameson Whiskey, "We greet a new king
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The title does much of the work: "We greet a new king" ties a bottle of John Jameson whiskey to a moment of national ceremony rather than to its flavor or price. Advertisers often borrowed the pageantry of royal succession to suggest respectability and public loyalty. Jameson, a Dublin firm whose family had been distilling since the late eighteenth century, marketed heavily in Britain and across the empire, so a royal theme made sense for a brand with wide reach. The piece is worth noticing for how it dresses a commercial message in the language of national occasion.
| Original scan | 665 × 943 px |
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| Reference | 1446 |
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