"The whiskey traffic comes to crush human hearts under its rumbling wheels.  It is the mortal enemy of peace and order; the despoiler of men and terror of women; the cloud that shadows the face of childhood; the demon that has dug more graves and ruined more lives than all the wars and pestilences of the earth." —Henry W. Grady.  Undated postcard via UpNorthMemories.

From Harvard Business School's 1941 yearbook.

From The Daily Colonist, 1932.

"Are you summer tired?"  From the Duluth Herald, 1905.

"Island of 'Whisky Galore.'"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.

From Medical College of Virginia's 1913 yearbook.

From Lighted Pathway, 1963.

From an ad for Old Crow whiskey, in Collier's, 1948.

"'Alcoholic thinking' leads to denials, excuses."  From the Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal, 1981.

Dancing has changed so much since the 1930s.  From the University of North Carolina's 1934 yearbook.

Davy Jones' whiskey delivery.  From Life, 1923.

If you've ever wondered which would win in a fight, whiskey or soda, here's the answer.  From Kladderadatsch, 1928.

Here's what lurks within a drop of whiskey.  From Pick Me Up, 1889.

Here's the spirit of "Whack-fol-tol-loo-ra-loo!"  From Fun magazine, 1879.  This should also be of interest: How to Believe in Your Elf.

A detail of a postcard from 1917.

You've heard of "His Master's Voice," but "His Master's Breath" smells like whiskey.  Date uncertain.

Barrels of whiskey and moonshine are traditionally labeled with X's (one X being weakest and three X's being strongest, as we learn in One-Letter Words: A Dictionary).  But lesser-known is that coffee used to be roasted to a XXXX strength.  Our vintage coffee ad is from c. 1890.  The four X's on the vintage Coca Cola postcard below are, we think, unrelated.