Direct visual evidence of the apparatus; its originality, date, and comparative uniqueness are caption claims requiring technical corroboration.
The equipment survives as a visible instrument within the historic distillery.
Two plates document a three-part tail box with hydrometers associated with both first and second distillations, presented as a quality-monitoring update beyond a single-chamber arrangement.
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Photographs — Labrot and Graham tail box
2026-09-29: main text/captions read across 274 screens; all pages visually surveyed and 22 enlarged details inspected. This record is bounded to its cited observation or source assertion, not independent historical/engineering corroboration. Whole-source full review remains open for embedded fine print. Photograph/caption coverage uses PDF screens 225–227, not printed pagination.
Verified visual evidence from the complete review of Carol Peachee's The Birth of Bourbon.
Evidence
Two plates document a three-part tail box with hydrometers associated with both first and second distillations, presented as a quality-monitoring update beyond a single-chamber arrangement.
Locator
- PDF: PDF sheet 226–227
- Section: Photographs — Labrot and Graham tail box
- Evidence type: Image or Figure
Context
The equipment survives as a visible instrument within the historic distillery.
Analytical use and caution
Direct visual evidence of the apparatus; its originality, date, and comparative uniqueness are caption claims requiring technical corroboration.
Verification
Complete 274-sheet page-by-page textual and visual review completed 2026-08-26; image-caption pairing inspected in numbered contact sheets and locator checked against extracted text.