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groups leading up to prohibition, during the prohibition era, and ending with the 21st amendment in 1933, which repealed the 18th amendment from 1919 prohibiting the manufacturing, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors.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

He began on cider

He began on cider

Brown University

At head of title cut of woman standing at gate. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 95. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Grandmother's boy

Grandmother's boy

Brown University

by Mary Dwinell Chellis. Prose and poetry. Caption title. Illustration: woman seated with child, another woman standing, in front of bookcase. At head of ill. on p. [1]: No. 12. First lines: A company of gentlemen, seated in a luxuriously furnished room.

Government control by liquor

Government control by liquor

Brown University

Excerpts from an address delivered at the National Convention of the Anti-Saloon League of America, Washington, D.C., Dec. 7, 1927.