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Receipt - Partially in print …8/4/1880… Cook & Bernheimer (1863 to 1917…prohibition) on 67 New Street, New York. History.. Cook & Bernheimer were NY wholesalers who distributed throughout the US, including the West Coast. Branch offices were located in Chicago and Cincinnati, among others. In 1889, they obtained an exclusive contract to bottle and distribute Mt Vernon whiskey, distilled by the Hannis Distilling Co. of Baltimore and Philadelphia. The whiskey was sold in distinctively square brown bottles that bore the Hannis name only, with no mention of Cook & Bernheimer. In 1910 Myer Bernheimer was listed as an officer….possibly a son of the father. The company used the brand names: "Cabinet Gin", "Cabinet Gin", "Diadem", "Dove Gin", "Gold", "Gold Lion", "Gold Lion Gin", "Good Luck", "Hoffman House", "Jockey Club Gin", "Joke", "Kermis Gin", "Lenox", "Long & Short", "M. V.", "Manhattan", "Mantoue's Upper Crust", "Marshall's Malt", "Monarch", "Monongahela A", "Mount Vernon", "Mount Vernon", "Mount Vernon Pure Rye Whiskey", "Navahoe", "Old Berkshire", "Old Valley", "Old Woodburn", "Province", "St. Anthony", and "Thistle Gin."

Associated People/Businesses

• Bernheimer, J. A.

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Physical Location

Arc.MS.56, Box 20, Folder 8