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[ALCOHOL]. Patent application, blueprints, and notebooks on...

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[ALCOHOL]. Patent application, blueprints, and notebooks on aging whisky and alcoholic beverages. 1930s. File of liquor related ephemera dating shortly after the repeal of Prohibition, including: a patent application and two blueprints by Thomas T. Miller of Peoria, Illinois, filed in February, 1938, for a method of aging whisky; a contemporary leather notebook containing typed and manuscript recipes for cocktails, syrups, essences, fermentation, yeasts, etc.; and Manual for Compounders, Rectifiers, Cordial Manufacturers (New York/Cincinnati: Alex Fries & Bro., 1933), 48pp.