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Robertson's Genuine Bourbon Cordial, 1857

A Harrison County house, bottling its own name onto the sheet.

What

A whiskey-cordial label from a Harrison County, Kentucky producer — one of the earliest confirmed pieces in this collection, predating the Civil War.

Why

A small regional distiller with no modern trace; the dead-mark case at its plainest — no scandal, no ban, just a business that didn't last.

Notice

How assured the sheet already looks by 1857 — the whiskey-label format was fully mature a full generation before the poster-scale advertising boom of the 1880s and 1890s.

“The oldest ghost in the room.”

Format

The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.

Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.

Size

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Provenance

The Lost — mark extinguished

Country: United States
Format: Broadside
Piece published: Robertson's Genuine Bourbon Cordial, Harrison Co., Kentucky — advertising label, 1857
Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · LCCN 99403795

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Scan: Library of Congress, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.

Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (piece published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the piece’s own publication year, never a brand’s founding year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-16.

Robertson's was gone from the market. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.