Is there anywhere that I can buy a print of this image or similar?
January 7, 2025 2:47 PM Subscribe
Iron Brew was originally made in Jamaica and then in the US by Maas & Waldstein. It is now the national soft drink of Scotland, with the name changed to Irn Bru. I'd like to purchase a print (or have it printed for me) a copy of an original American advertisement for the product to tweak the noses of my friends in Scotland here. Does anyone know where I could find it or where I could find an image that I could send to a shop to get a high quality print of?
The image I found was from the Sun, which while the UK newspaper equivalent of Fox News, is actually accurate in this case, as there's an academic paper that it's based on.
The image itself
The article in the Sun
The academic paper about the adoption of Iron Brew/Irn Bru in Scotland that features the bottle labels that the Sun created the story from.
Anyway, I want a poster, a print, or a high enough quality image that a print shop could produce something nice with it of the "The Ideal American Drink" ad from the Sun. Reverse image searching leads nowhere, the image online is not high enough quality to make a poster, and I'd like to use something other than the bottle label (there is a really good image of it in the paper, which could be used as a last resort). Does anyone know where I can look?
(The ad seems to be from American Bottler Monthly, but the best I can find of that is some Flickr images from 1917 and a 1910 court case)
The image I found was from the Sun, which while the UK newspaper equivalent of Fox News, is actually accurate in this case, as there's an academic paper that it's based on.
The image itself
The article in the Sun
The academic paper about the adoption of Iron Brew/Irn Bru in Scotland that features the bottle labels that the Sun created the story from.
Anyway, I want a poster, a print, or a high enough quality image that a print shop could produce something nice with it of the "The Ideal American Drink" ad from the Sun. Reverse image searching leads nowhere, the image online is not high enough quality to make a poster, and I'd like to use something other than the bottle label (there is a really good image of it in the paper, which could be used as a last resort). Does anyone know where I can look?
(The ad seems to be from American Bottler Monthly, but the best I can find of that is some Flickr images from 1917 and a 1910 court case)
Best answer: A tweak to that WordPress url gives a much higher resolution image. An Ai upscale produces an image that'd be plenty high resolution to print a poster.
posted by gregr at 4:52 PM on January 7 [3 favorites]
posted by gregr at 4:52 PM on January 7 [3 favorites]
(A Scottish person here, professionally offended now, asks: so how come Japanese ramune, developed by Scottish chemist Alexander Sim in the 1880s tastes almost perfectly like the real Irn Bru? The later-named "Iron Brew" likely neither tasted nor looked like it. Jamaican "iron brew" tonics are mostly for men worried about their willies, and should not be drunk in quantity)
posted by scruss at 6:57 PM on January 7 [3 favorites]
posted by scruss at 6:57 PM on January 7 [3 favorites]
Response by poster: gregr, that is fantastic, thank you so much!
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