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groups leading up to prohibition, during the prohibition era, and ending with the 21st amendment in 1933, which repealed the 18th amendment from 1919 prohibiting the manufacturing, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors.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

Fellow citizens, We are again under the necessity of making an appeal to you, to aid us with your means, to continue ...

Fellow citizens, We are again under the necessity of making an appeal to you, to aid us with your means, to continue and carry out to its fullest extent the Washingtonian Cause of Total Abstinence: In a few days a person properly authorised will call upon the citizens for subscriptions and will pay the same over to Dr. Walter Channing, treasurer of the Citizen's Committee for raising funds for the

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Samuel F. Holbrook, president of the Washington Total Abstinence Society. Dated at head: Boston, May 14th, 1842.

Federal prohibition as applied to the territory of Hawaii

Federal prohibition as applied to the territory of Hawaii

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argument of John G. Woolley ; with explanatory statement of the Anti-Saloon League of America. "Filed with the Senate Committee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico and the House Committee on Territories, February, 1911, by the Anti-Saloon League of America" "With explanatory statement by S.E. Nicholson, Gen. Secretary, Anti-Saloon League of America"--Cover.

Facts for the Temperance electors of Providence

Facts for the Temperance electors of Providence

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Attacks several Rhode Island candidates, including Richard W. Greene and Samuel Ames, as friends of the "Rum Party" not true supporters of the "License Party." Attacks several Rhode Island candidates, including Richard W. Greene and Samuel Ames, as friends of the "Rum Party" not true supporters of the "License Party." Type-signed at end: A Tee-Totaller. Suggested publication date from pencil notation on Brown University copy; must be after 1841 because of reference to a candidate's behavior in that year.

Experience, No. 2

Experience, No. 2

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By J. Carter. Poetry. To be sung to the tune: Lucy Neale. Within border of type ornaments. Poem in seven stanzas recounts drunkard's career until taking the pledge and becoming a Washingtonian. Date from internal evidence ; Washingtonian Temperance Society was founded in 1840. First line: In Philadelphia, I was born.

Emancipation

Emancipation

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1 broadsheet Tune: America Contains music