Whiskey
date: label: date made
content: 1916-1928
name: label: maker
content: Hannis Distilling Company
notes: label: Description
content: Glass jar with paper label that reads “HANNISVILLE / BOTTLED IN BOND / PURE RYE / WHISKEY / BOTTLED BY / THE HANNIS DISTILLING CO. / BALTIMORE, MD.” A paper label on the back reads in part “For Medical Purposes Only.” A stamp indicates that the contents were made in 1916, and bottled in 1928.
label: Description
content: Henry L. Staub established a distillery in Martinsburg, WVa., and sold this facility to John Quincy Adams Nadenbousch in 1857. A decade later, after the Civil War, Nadenbousch sold the facility to Henry S. Hannis and Company, a liquor business in Philadelphia.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis Gedding
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.1003.01
label: catalog number
content: 1986.1003.01
label: accession number
content: 1986.1003
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bottle, liquor
label: Object Name
content: bottle, liquor, prohibition
label: Object Name
content: medicinal alcohol
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: rye whiskey (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.6 cm x 10 cm x 4.5 cm; 8 1/2 in x 3 15/16 in x 1 25/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 3 7/8 in x 2 in; 21.59 cm x 9.8425 cm x 5.08 cm