Card advertising Sutton's American Bar
Datec 1940
Object number00019609
NameCard
MediumInk, card
DimensionsOverall: 77 x 125 mm, 0.004 kg
ClassificationsEphemera
Credit LineANMM Collection
Purchased with USA Bicentennial Gift funds
DescriptionCard advertising `Sutton's American Bar, Castlereagh street, Sydney Steamship Officers' Resort J.B. Sutton (late purser american SS "Alameda") Proprietor'.
On the reverse is a five stanza poem titled "He Never Blamed the Booze".
HistorySutton's bar was promoted as a steamship officers resort, and the proprietor, J.B.Sutton, had been the purser on American steamship SS ALAMEDA. Sutton was the sole agent for a range of American beers and spirits and in this advertisement boasts that 'All American mixed drinks [are] made by American Bartenders'
and American money is taken and American papers are available.
SignificanceThis advertisement well illustrates how American servicemen were catered for on the Australian home front.
1790 - c 1870
late 19th century
