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a funny cartoon drawing by the famous writer William Makepeace Thackeray,  1862?

       

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Franz Von Stuck,  1909?     "Young Bacchus"      see full size

       

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Ronald Searle

       

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"Delightfully smoky aftertaste"    Ronald Searle

       

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Mabel Dwight      see full size

       

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 Walter Schnackenberg

       

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 Heinrich Zille      see full size

       

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1963 Schlitz beer

       

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1832 London statistics for the busiest gin shops on Mondays was
Men 3146,  Women 2189,  Children 686 ... the child customers
for gin were probably sent by adults.

   

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 1832 London statistics for alcohol  "Men not infrequently drink each from
two to three gallons of porter in one day."  (a dark beer)  "... many drugs
are employed to adulterate porter - Quassia,  Copperas,  Gentian,
Capsicum,  Coculus Indicus,  Grains of Paradise, 
Yew Tops and tobacco ..." 
     

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"The Grog Shop"  some 1834 facts of life,  from a children's schoolbook

     

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an article about USA prohibition,  from a 1916 sugar industry
trade publication:  "A large percentage of all intoxicating liquors,
whiskeys, brandies, wines, beers, and ales represent only a chemical
re-arrangement of sugar.  When a drinker stops taking alcoholic
beverages, or even cuts down on them, he must and does 
use more sugar ..."  

     

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an ice holder and a shaker,  1930s?

       

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David Downton

           

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a John Gilbert illustration for Dickens

            

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an Enoch Bolles illustration for Judge magazine,  1922

      

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the "Peacock Lounge"
     
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a local celebration by K. Thylmann,  1916
     
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a Thomas Fluharty illustration

     
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a thirsty hangover by A. Bork      see full size
        
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a Bernie Fuchs illustration
     
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 Max Velthuijs,  1967      see full size
     
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 a John Bauer illustration,  1912? 
    
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cold beer
      
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 four panels by artist Will Elder,  from a monthly Little Annie Fanny story

in 1960s Playboy Magazine

     
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an FJ Garner 1950 illustration

          
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 a Bruno Paul illustration for a German social satire magazine
     
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an Anders Zorn art print:  aged and mellow      see full size
     
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a Guinness advertisement
     
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a Jan Vermeer painting "Officer and Laughing Girl"    around 1657

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"Do thy spiriting gently."   an 1881 cartoon
            

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a John R. Neill illustration

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a 1926 hotel bread toaster
        
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  "The Turtle Outwitted"  an H.J. Ford illustration from 'The Turtle and his Bride'

                 
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a (1970's?) Charlie Allen illustration

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"A Modern Cook"  1903
        
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an L. Leslie Brooke illustration       see full size
    
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a Bob Jones illustration

     
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1903       see full size

     
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1906

     
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a Vernon Grant children's book illustration

     
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Vernon Grant       see full size

     
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Vernon Grant

     
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Carl Barks made the Donald Duck comic books,

but this is for 'adults'       see full size

     
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a Noel Fontanet poster

     
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an Alice & Martin Provensen illustration,  1949       see full size

     
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Heinrich Kley

     
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from a Tex Avery animation       see full size

     
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witch:  "I'm doing things I never would have attempted without the food processor." 
a Rowland Wilson advertising cartoon
        
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a 1700s chef
        
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A. Vimar,  1917       see full size

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a Ronald Searle royal castle kitchen       see full size

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Wilhelm Busch illustration
        
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 a Mary Blair illustration for a children's book       see full size
        
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an Alice & Martin Provinson children's illustration         
     
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a 1911 hotel dining room       see full size

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that 1911 hotel kitchen,  from the same illustration       see full size
        
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"MAD's Don Martin Cooks Up More Tales"

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A. Vimar,  1917
        
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a 1934 display in a butcher's window       see full size
  
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Warner Bros. animation character 'Witch Hazel'       see full size

     
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