Temperance Movement
Title
Temperance Movement
Description
This collection contains photographs and illustrations used for informational, entertainment, and propaganda purposes during the 1830s and the 1840s. The Temperance Movement, which urged the moderation of alcohol and eventually lead to the 18th Amendment in the 1920s.
Collection Items
The Fruits of Intemperance
Previously published with a different title, "The Bad Husband," this is a depiction of the negative effects alcohol had on the family during the Prohibition Era.
The Fruits of Temperance
Also published under the title of "The Good Husband" to depict the positive effects of temperance in the Prohibition Era.
Women in Bar Recording Drinkers
Women in saloon in Oakland, IN, keeping records of who bought drinks. An effort is being made to drive them out with a skunk. Wood cut.
The General Officers of the National W.C.T.U.
Photographs of the officers of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, who worked to promote temperance and the 18th Amendment.
Illustration
"How awful were my feelings when, on glancing upwards, I saw a face of horrible malignancy, and a dozen serpests and dragons, and monsters of all shapes, coming, as it seemed, with hellish delight towards me."
The Bottle Plate I
Number 1 in a series of 8 depicting the progressive degeneration of a family due to the evils of drinking.
The Bottle: Plate IV
"Unable To Find Employment, They Are Driven by Poverty Into the Streets to Beg, and By This Means They Still Supply the Bottle"; Black and white print in a series depicting the progressive degeneration of a family due to the evils of drinking; 8 1/2…
Interior of a dance house on State Street in Leadville, Colorado
Illustration of a tavern or dance house
