Type of distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash

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A military doctor prescribing whiskey lotion for a soldier's sprained foot - his patient requesting Irish. Wood engraving by A.C. Corbould, 1885.

How you can make money out of garlic, cigars, whisky pickled onions and curry : this is what goes in your pocket.

A taste of Scotland.

A still house in a whiskey distillery. Wood engraving, late 19th century.

A man drinking himself to death; represented by a skeletal death figure above him and bottles scattered all around. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.

Ephemera Collection, Comet Whiskey label

Fermenting backs and workers in a whiskey distillery. Wood engraving, late 19th century.

Bogus liquors and how to suppress them / Hiram Walker & Sons.

Interim report.

Alcohol industry ephemera. Box 2.

The terroir of whiskey : a distiller's journey into the flavor of place / Rob Arnold.

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Whiskey

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Bogus liquors and how to suppress them / Hiram Walker & Sons.

Interim report.

A still house in a whiskey distillery. Wood engraving, late 19th century.

Alcohol industry ephemera. Box 2.

The terroir of whiskey : a distiller's journey into the flavor of place / Rob Arnold.