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Scientific Bar-Keeping

Joseph W. Gibson's compact manual promised bar-keeping as a system — scientific in the 1880s sense: exact measures, ordered recipes, no mystery. A slim witness to the trade's professionalization.

Author
Joseph W. Gibson
Published
1884
Edition
1884
Published in
United States
Written in
English

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www.loc.gov/item/07000671 ↗
Host
Library of Congress
Format
Page scans + searchable text
Access
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Historic mixed-drink recipe booklet.

Background

Published in 1884, it belongs to the generation after Thomas and Johnson, when the American bar was codifying itself into procedure. The Library of Congress copy is a rare survivor of a short-lived genre of trade pamphlets.

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