Subject: Distilleries

Manuscript lease dated November 21, 1868, with a fifty-cent mortgage stamp affixed. Henry J. Calisher and Meyer Cohn lease one-half acre of land with a distillery known as the Vogler Spring Distillery in Henrico County, Virginia. The lease is accompanied by the naturalization papers of Henry Vogler, issued in Baltimore, Maryland on February 12, 1855. The document shows signs of age and damage, including tearing and staining. The lease measures 8.5 x 14 inches.

A single ledger sheet (7" x 16"), folded into four pages, containing business records of Michael Hart and his son Jacob in Easton, Pennsylvania. The first page records Michael Hart's general store in 1774; the remaining three pages document a distillery's operations in 1804 and 1805.

Miniature whiskey jug given as an advertisement for Freiberg & Kahn Distillers in Cincinnati, Ohio. The jug features the inscription "Metropolitan Club...Feiberg & Kahn Distillers...Cincinnati." The exact date of manufacture is unknown, but it's estimated to be sometime before 1910, based on the donor's information. The jug is part of a larger collection of Judaica Americana.

A molded glass whiskey bottle with the inscription "DREYFUSS, WEIL & CO...DISTILLERS" and "PADUCAH, KENTUCKY." Flask-type bottle. Circa 1890s.