flasks

How to make gin at home?

A prototype of some test version of refinery technology?

We recently found some old catalog cards for Harris & Ewing that had a caption for this photo. The caption for this photo should be: “UNCLE SAM HAS TURNED DISTILLER” In the campaign to outwit bootleggers and at the same times develop a non-poisonous denaturant for alcohol, the Prohibition Bureau has set up a modern copper still of miniature “commercial” proportions in the laboratory atop the United States Treasury building in Washington, to give severe practical tests to all tentative formulae. The business of this new still is do the same thing the bootlegger does--take the poison out of denatured alcohol but at the same time make it disagreeable to the taste. G.F. Beyer, chief chemist of the Prohibition Unit, is shown in the picture."

There's an oral history interview with Borsook here: oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/24/ His papers are at CalTech: www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1p3001cj/ His daughter Eve Borsook (b. 1929) is an art historian of note: www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/borsooke.htm

Thanks for posting these informative links, pennylrichardsca! Susannah

This photo is NOT Henry Borsook. This is Mannie Edward Borsook. The man pictured, M.E. Borsook was a medical doctor in East Los Angeles. The oral history is from a different person than the one pictured here.

Apparently not the Agnes Quirk whose papers are at the University of North Dakota: webapp.und.edu/dept/library/Collections/og1269.html

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What an awesome shot!