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WCTU Float

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

Temperance Movement in Wisconsin

Brief history of the temperance movement in Wisconsin.
Historical Essay

Juliet Severance, Radical Victorian

A Good Mother, a Good Friend and a Good Woman
Discover Juliet Severance, the free-thinking Whitewater physician who was involved with the anti-slavery movement, temperance and women's rights.
Historical Essay

Morality in America

Temperance, Abolition and Utopian Communities
Discovery how early Americans founded the abolition and temperance movements to help increase morality
Photograph

Kathryn Piper

Date: 10 03 1944
Description: Kathryn Piper, widow of Frank Piper and president of the Madison chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) for 12 years prior to 1941, is ob...
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...
Online Exhibit

Temperance

Wisconsin Citizen Petition Exhibit
Historical Essay

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1850-1919)

Poet and Temperance Advocate
Biography of Wisconsin poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Historical Essay

When Beer Was Almost Illegal

A Popular Speaker Sways Opinion
Discover the connection between P.T. Barnum and the 1853 statewide referendum on liquor sales.

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