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S.T. Suit and Co.’s Old Kentucky Whiskies Trade Card

Card with a color print of the House Chamber in session at center labeled “Congress,” with blue, red, and white text reading, “S. T. Suit & Co.’s Fine Kentucky Whiskies. Louisville Kentucky,” and colorful, decorative banners and foliation/tiles/collection/9/9253.xml
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Reverse of card, with printed text reading, “Edward H. Maxwell, Sole Agent for S. T. Suit & Co.’s Old Kentucky Whiskies, In the New England States. 22 Central Wharf and 113 Central Street, Boston Mass.”/tiles/collection/9/9254.xml
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Card with a color print of the House Chamber in session at center labeled “Congress,” with blue, red, and white text reading, “S. T. Suit & Co.’s Fine Kentucky Whiskies. Louisville Kentucky,” and colorful, decorative banners and foliation
Reverse of card, with printed text reading, “Edward H. Maxwell, Sole Agent for S. T. Suit & Co.’s Old Kentucky Whiskies, In the New England States. 22 Central Wharf and 113 Central Street, Boston Mass.”
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Date

ca. 1870

Dimensions

3 1/4 × 5 in. (8.3 × 12.7 cm)

Accession Number

2007.026.000

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

S.T. Suit used an image of the House Chamber, taken from an existing photograph, as the logo for one of his wares. Suit was both a distiller and a Washington power broker who named his whiskey brands “Congress,” “Capitol,” and “Senate,” and ultimately married the daughter of Representative Charles Pelham of Alabama.

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