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various groups leading up to prohibition, during the prohibition era, and ending with the 21st amendment in 1933, which repealed the 18th amendment from 1919 prohibiting the manufacturing, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors.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

Ode

Ode

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Tune: When the trump of Fame. Within border of type ornaments. Refers to Union victory in Civil War.

Obedience to law

Obedience to law

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A sermon delivered in the Broadway Tabernacle, Sunday, October 6, 1929.

No!

No!

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by Mary Dwinell Chellis. At head of title cut of children playing. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 88. Poetry and prose. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Newspapers' wet bias exposed

Newspapers' wet bias exposed

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Reply sent by the chairman of the Women's Allied Organizations of Massachusetts, to the editor of the Detroit Free Press.

New Year's address of Amos to his patrons: New London, January 1, 1851

New Year's address of Amos to his patrons: New London, January 1, 1851

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Supports free soil and temperance, with ridicule of named local politicians Supports free soil and temperance, with ridicule of named local politicians Poetry and prose. At head of text: Price, from a half dime to a half dollar. At head of poem, below title "Address," wood-engraving of two men with grinding machine grinding objects labelled "Facts" into a long scroll; caption at top: Well, Amos, turn away, and let us see what will come. Printed in three columns divided by single lines within border of type ornament sections. Apparently not a carrier's address but a general New Year poem addressed to inhabitants; mention of Yale indicates New London, Conn. as place of publication.

My friend, your picture here you see

My friend, your picture here you see

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At head of title hand-colored wood-engraving of drunken Union soldier. Title from first line. Six-line poem. A similar poem at Brown University entitled Soldier (HB37951) was published by the N.Y. Union Valentine Co.

Mustered out--now look out

Mustered out--now look out

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Prose and a poem. First line of prose: Look out--not so much for the rebels whom you have met.

Murder of three men at Hanover!: March 17, 1845

Murder of three men at Hanover!: March 17, 1845

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Printed in three columns divided by curvilinear lines; quotations in two columns divided by curvilinear line below rule at bottom. Account of murder of customers by Seth Perry, a liquor dealer, and of temperance meeting at Faneuil Hall, Boston, with quotations from William Ellery Channing, Francis Wayland, and others.