Evanston, Illinois: National Women's Christian Temperance Union, 1902. Wraps. 4-3/4 x 3 inches (12 x 7.5 cm.) stapled wraps. Upper leaf with a single vertical crease, some tide-marking to the final few leaves and rear wrap, but overall fresh and sound, and apparently unread (see below). Pamphlet containing a statement.....
Post card. 1. 1 1/4 inches (3 cm) long brass hatchet pendant. Temperance supporters purchase these pendants to support the cause. Carrie Nation was famous for using a hatchet to attack saloons and crack open barrels of alcohol. 2. 5 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches (14 x......
Ribbon. 5.5 x 3 inches (14 x 7.5 cm), silk ribbon, slightly frayed at bottom and top, minor staining, picture of George Washington at a desk holding a quill pen. Picture of eagle at top. "The Greenwich Temperance Benevolent Societies." Area with bird has two streamers one says "Total" the.....
Columbus, Kansas: Prohibition Publishing Company, 1883. Fold news print. 20 x 13 inches (51 x 33 cm), bi-fold news print. Top fold is untrimmed. Former owner's name written in color pencil above masthead. Some age toning. One paragraph is boxed in red pencil 8 large parentheses drawn in blue pencil.....
Washington: Way and Gideon, 1833. sewn. 9-1/2 x 6" (24 x 15 cm). Six loose signatures, untrimmed at top, formerly sewn, a bit of thread is present on first signature. Age toning on edges. Two brown spots on back cover. Speeches and proceedings of a meeting regarding temperance. 48 pp.....
New York: Prohibition Lecture Bureau, 1886. First Edition. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches (13.5 x 21.5 cm), newsprint 4pp. Vol. I no. 18. Top edge has chips and folds.
New York City: (1918). Broadside. 12" x 9-1/2" (30.5 x 24 cm). Age toned paper. Reprint of an article published in 1918. The title comes from a quote by a Methodist anti-alcohol activist who states, "We must have prohibition in order to end this Catholic Church business. They cannot exist.....
London: circa 1920's. Card stock. 4.5 x 3 inches (11.5 x 7.7 cm), Folded card stock, tiny rip at bottom of fold about 1 cm, age toning. Front cover advertises the hotel with address and list of public transit stations with easy access. Inside has a price list with prices.....
Albany NY: Temperance Recorder, 1832. Boards. 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (24 x 19 cm), marble paper boards with cloth spine, some of spine is worn away, darkening along edges and on back, some of the cloth is missing on the back. Front cover is only held on by.....
Evanston Ilinois: National Woman's Christian Temperance Union Publishing House, 1924. Second Edition. Cloth. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine, gilt imagine of hand holding up a torch on front, a few white spots and worn at extremities. Inscribed by author to another temperance activist, dated 1926.....
London: Marshall & Son, 1894. Newspaper. 13-1/2" x 9-1/2" (34 x 24 cm). 273-288. "A Weekly Record and Review of Woman's Work in Philanthropy and Reform, and the Official organ of the British Women's Temperance Association." Some of the page edges are rough. A small tear is at the top.....
Newport, R.I. The Office of the Newport Mercury, 1815. Sewn wraps. 8 1/2 x 5 inches (21 x 12.5 cm). Sewn pamphlet, foxing to cover, open tear at top of front cover, closed tear on back cover, ink writing on top. 23 pp.
New York: The Hurst Temperance Contest Committee, 1929. First Edition. Cloth. Black cloth with stain on front cover, green lettering on front and spine. Chips in cloth beside spine, wear to extremities, some front end pages have soiling. A contest was held for writers to propose a system of temperance.....
Detroit: R.D.S. Tyler & Co., 1878. First Edition. Cloth. Blue cloth with embossed gilt lettering on front, embossed black decoration on front, gilt lettering on spine. Back cover has embossed title, white marks and buckling, wear to extremities, tissue guard over frontispiece, has foxing, front free fly leaf has name.....
Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association, H. J. Smith, 1889. Cloth with 1/4 leather. Brown cloth with 1/4 leather, gilt lettering on front and spine, gilt emblem on front, leather on corner, gilt page edges, wear at head and foot of spine, small tears where spine meets front cover, edges rubbed.....