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Manuscript

Termperance Traveling Card

Date: 1858
Description: A certificate declaring the admission of U. P. Olin into the Independent Order of Good Templars.
Document

Band of Hope Membership Certificate

Date: 1883
Description: A colorful certificate that acknowledges the membership of Willie Diederich of Waukesha, Wisconsin into Band of Hope, a temperance organization.
Document

Sons of Temperance Withdrawal

Date: 1857
Description: A certificate acknowledging the admission of Frederick Beermein to Sons of Temperance.
Document

Prescription for Medicinal Alcohol

Date: 11 01 1924
Description: A prescription for alcohol written out to Mrs. Anna Steinberg of Kenosha, Wisconsin to treat her bronchitis.
Photograph

"Carry A Nation"

Date: 
Description: View of (Carry) Carrie Nation speaking from a stage surrounded by a crowd at a county fair.
Photograph

Women's Christian Temperance Union Convention at Hotel Loraine

Date: 09 13 1957
Description: The national Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) holds their annual convention at the Hotel Loraine. Mrs. Fred J. Tooze (of Portland, Oregon), WCTU n...
Photograph

Temperance House Sign

Date: 1925
Description: A worn, painted wooden sign reads: "Temperance House by J. Child 1852." It was "at Lima Center, the first house south of the cemetery on the main road bet...
Photograph

WCTU Float

Date: 07 11 1941
Description: Float of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in a Milwaukee parade.
Photograph

Temperance Group at Willard School

Date: 07 17 1909
Description: Field trip to Emma Willard's home near Janesville by the 18th annual convention of the Loyal Temperance League of Wisconsin. The sign on one of the wagons...
Photograph

"Opportunity Meets Responsibility"

Date: 07 1901
Description: Decorations in the Methodist Episcopal Church of Monroe where the Wisconsin Loyal Temperance League met for its annual convention in 1901. A portrait of n...
Photograph

Harwood, Brisbane, and Coffin

Date: 1853
Description: Half plate daguerreotype of E. Harwood, Dr. William Brisbane, and Levi Coffin, sitting in a row.
Photograph

Susan B. Anthony

Date: 
Description: A portrait of an elderly Susan B. Anthony. She is known primarily for her leadership in the women's rights movement, but was also an activist for other soc...
Print

Bevo, Label

Date: 1917
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. The label features an image of a crane and an eagle. Bevo was a non-alcoholic drink p...
Photograph

Mrs. Phillips, Secretary of W.C.T.U.

Date: 08 24 1934
Description: Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist.
Poster

Anti-Prohibition Poster

Date: 1918
Description: A cartoon drawing of the statue of liberty with her hands in the air and her torch falling towards the ground. Below her are six men pointing guns at her....
Print

Schlitz Beer Advertisement

Date: 04 1932
Description: "Here's to Health!", an advertisement for the alcohol-free beer brewed by Schlitz during Prohibition. The advertising touts the product's healthful qualiti...
Photograph

Loyal Temperance Legion Parade at Delavan

Date: 07 1892
Description: Parade of men, women, and young people attending the second convention of the Wisconsin Loyal Temperance Union at Delavan. The LTL was a branch of the Wom...
Photograph

Frances Willard

Date: 01 08 1898
Description: The last photograph taken of Frances Willard, a leader in the temperance movement and women's activist in the Methodist church.
Photograph

W.C.T.U. Temple

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U) Temple. The temple is a simple building with a tower with a weather vane above the main e...
Photograph

Temperance Rebus

Date: 1885
Description: Rebus from the National Temperance Advocate, 1884-1886 p.207. Solution is: "What harm can there be in a glass of beer? None, my man, in one or two. 'Tis...

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