Alford Q Collins 1897 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Publicans Precision Cornelius Beer

The Publicans Precision Cornelius Beer Tap Patent is a drawing from the era when American brewing was a serious industrial science — pumps

a cocktail lounge

or Xmas Gifts

324173 captures the mechanical heart of mixology — the moment when bartending stopped being improvisation and started being craft worth patenting

Alford Q Collins 1897 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Publicans Precision Cornelius BeerAlford Q Collins 1897 a studio portrait fixed in the late Gilded Age, the kind of formal likeness commissioned when a man wished his name and bearing entered into the civic record, the year inked beneath him like a small claim against forgetting. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier