Photographs of People Drinking
PART I of a Series
03 June 2012
I wanted to create a gallery of my favorite vintage drinking pictures. Some are in my collection. If you have any candidates for inclusion, please forward. Thanks.
Drinking Gallery
Two men drinking and playing cards with a TURNER BROS tintype
Tintype of Drinking “Buddies,” – Cowan’s Auctions
A Drink and a Good Cigar Tintype – Heritage Auctions
Miners drinking – Colorado Historical Society
Maj. H.H. Humphrey and others – Library of Congress
Original antique Carte de Visite By “Traveling Artists” Peter & Kresge (probably from Pennsylvania) Handsome Young Man in Uniform (Civil War?) with Fish Bottle
Men gathered for a drink in the Road House Saloon, Bluff City, Alaska – ca. 1906
Men posing with beer postcard
Bealeton, Va. Noncommissioned officers’ mess of Co. D, 93d New York Infantry – Library of Congress
Framed Old Continental Whiskey photograph
Three unidentified soldiers playing cards, smoking, and drinking in front of American flag – Library of Congress
Hutchinson Women
Three men drinking wearing hats tintype
Cowboys drinking in a saloon bar
Lad enjoying a frosty mug of Drake’s Plantation Bitters
Fred D. Follett Bottled Milk
Saloon pose – location unknown
Orient Saloon – Bisbee, Arizona
Civil War table pose
Farmer and ex-cowboy drinking beer in North Platte, Nebraska, saloon ca. 1938
Tintype: Men Drinking Liquor
Unknown men in unknown location. They appear to be drinking beer and all are wearing medals of some type. – Brodhead Historical Society
Drinking and Smoking Tintype
Drinking, smoking & poker. 3 things that do go well together!
Love this picture…probably during prohibition. Maybe drinking Atlas Beer – Daffys Landing Antiques
A Quiet Sunday at Scotia – The photo was taken in front of a bunkhouse at the company town of Scotia just south of Eureka, in Humboldt County, Ca. Scotia was big redwood lumber company town in the 1800′s. The town still exists but not as a company town. You can see the bunkhouse number on the wall behind the men and you can see hobnails on the bottom of the boots on one of the men playing cards. – photo Martin Ludtke
Ca. 1870 Tintype – Man w/Wine Bottle & Historical Union Clasped Hands Flask – Here is a pretty cool item that ended recently on eBay that was similar to the fish bitters picture. – Brandon Smith
Photographs of People Drinking – Part I
Photographs and Images of People Drinking – Part II
Photographs and Images of People Drinking – Part III
Photographs and Images of People Drinking – Part IV (Brewing)
Photographs and Images of People Drinking – Part V
Photographs and Images of People Drinking – Part VI
Possibly the Earliest Photograph of People Drinking Beer – Part VII
Cool pictures, I really enjoyed this.
The unknown saloon location has to be somewhere out West. Antelope and mule deer on the wall says most likely Colorado, Montana or Wyoming.
It is amazing to see evidence that nineteenth century folks used bitters as just another form of alcohol, which, really, it was: I’ve read that Drake’s was 66 proof and Hostetter’s was 88 proof!