Postcard with Jonathan Uttley – 1884-1962

From the Seagram Museum Library Collection
University of Waterloo Library

This image is from a postcard now in the Seagram Collection in the Rare Book Room of the Dana Porter Library at the University of Waterloo. The picture was printed as a postcard with places for a message, address and stamp preprinted on the back. It is not dated, but somewhere in the 1920s is likely.
The two gents in the rear were both employees of the distillery, Jonathan (Jack) UTTLEY on the left receiving a libation and Henry HENRICH on the right doing the pouring. The young lad and the woman are not identified.
The purpose of this picture may never been known. The two guys appear to be smirking and the whisky bottle is in plain view for anybody to see. The innocent child and mother figure can't see the action behind them -- but do they know what is going on? This image could be a statement on the end of prohibition in Canada? Perhaps the intended audience was south of the border where prohibition lingered longer?

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