Alcohol, Temperance & Prohibition

The digitized items in the Alcohol, Temperance and Prohibition Collection are from the Alcoholism and Addiction Studies Collection, as well as from various collections in the Brown University Library — broadsides, sheet music, pamphlets and government publications. The items have been collected at Brown for over three centuries for researchers and scholars at Brown and worldwide interested in American history, including the history of alcoholism, how the media was used for spreading ideas and information, and in how the arts presented various movements. The purpose of this digital collection is to give researchers and interested individuals a glimpse into the rich and diverse resources at Brown's library. All of the digital items are in the public domain. The digitized pamphlets were published by various groups leading up to prohibition, during the prohibition era, and ending with the 21st amendment in 1933, which repealed the 18th amendment from 1919 prohibiting the manufacturing, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors.
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Items in this collection

Simultaneous Temperance meetings, Feb. 22, 1842

At head of text: The Committee appointed to make arrangements for Temperance Meetings on the above day at the Beneficent Congregational Church present the following Order of Exercises ... Contains songs and hymns.

Significance of social attitude

Dr. Myerson is Director of Psychiatric Research, Boston State Hospital. The above is from "The Social Pharmacology of Alcoholism," an address at the Symposium on Alcoholism, Philadelphia.

Sifted Wheat.

Sifted Wheat.

Brown University

Contains a cartoon with the caption: How Our Public Watch Dogs Are Fed.

Shooting at a mark

Shooting at a mark

Brown University

By Julia Colman. At head of title cut of boy shooting an arrow at a target while other children watch. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 108. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Shall it be retreat or victory?

Copy of an address by Bishop Thomas Nicholson of Detroit at [the] opening session of [the] Michigan Anti-Saloon League Convention, at Statler Hotel, Detroit, on April 22, 1931.