An 1864 advertising lithograph for Congress Bourbon, drawn and printed by E. Ackermann — a Civil-War-era American whiskey mark. The Congress Bourbon mark is long defunct, with no modern revival; like the Bininger pieces it predates this collection's core window but the same dead-mark doctrine applies. The lithographer's own credit — 'E. Ackermann, del. & lith.' — printed on the sheet, from the era when the artist and the printer were often the same hand. Older than the drought, and gone just as completely.

Maker: E. Ackermann (del. & lith.)
Date: 1864
Medium of the original: Broadside
Original held by: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00574

As chosen: 18 x 24 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	18 x 24 in
Outside size	19.6 x 25.6 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.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 10 in	761	Excellent	Trimmed 0.3%
11 x 14 in	545	Excellent	Trimmed 1.5%
12 x 16 in	477	Excellent	Trimmed 5.9%
16 x 20 in	380	Excellent	Trimmed 0.3%
18 x 24 in	318	Excellent	Trimmed 5.9%
24 x 30 in	253	Excellent	Trimmed 0.3%
30 x 40 in	191	Good	Trimmed 5.9%
36 x 48 in	159	Good	Trimmed 5.9%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
12 x 18 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
16 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
20 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
24 x 36 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
40 x 60 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

6,093 x 7,641 px, srgb, Adobe RGB (1998)

Tone

Darks 83, lights 215 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

37.62

Notes

Colour profile Adobe RGB (1998), converted to sRGB for the screen and the print
Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned

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