
Bininger's Pioneer Bourbon, 1859
Library of Congress, hosted on Wikimedia Commons., 1859
$191
Print check at 16 x 20 in: 161 dpi, good. Trimmed 7.1% to the shape of the print.
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A companion label to Bininger's Old Kentucky Bourbon — a frontiersman with rifle, warming himself by a campfire under moonlight, the frontier mythology already fully formed by 1859. Same defunct house, same dead mark — this pairs with the Old Kentucky label as a matched set from Bininger's New York operation. The nocturnal palette — most whiskey labels of the era sold daylight abundance; this one sells solitude. The fire went out. The scene stayed lit.
- Maker
- Library of Congress, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
- Date
- 1859
- Medium of the original
- Broadside
- Original held by
- Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
- Credit
- Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00571
| Picture | 16 x 20 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 17.6 x 21.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 323 | Excellent | Trimmed 7.1% |
| 11 x 14 in | 235 | Excellent | Trimmed 5.4% |
| 12 x 16 in | 215 | Excellent | Trimmed 0.9% |
| 16 x 20 in | 161 | Good | Trimmed 7.1% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | 143 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 107 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 86 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 71 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,588 x 3,482 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 64, lights 248 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 0.68
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
- Soft fine detail at full resolution: smaller sizes print crisper
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