“Grand Victory of the American National Beverage Over Its Foreign Rivals.”
Wilmington, North Carolina: likely mid-19th century. Single 6 x 9 ½ inch sheet. Advertisement for soda water from S.G. Northrop’s Fruit and Confectionery Store in Wilmington, North Carolina. Northrop’s used “Matthews’ Apparatus,” a mechanism for carbonating water invented by the “Soda Fountain King” John Matthews. The advertisement features an amusing.....