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groups leading up to prohibition, during the prohibition era, and ending with the 21st amendment in 1933, which repealed the 18th amendment from 1919 prohibiting the manufacturing, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors.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

Education and temperance

Education and temperance

Brown University

Reprinted from The Parish School, Church School Journal of the United Lutheran Church in America, November, 1929

Editors Praise Prohibition

Editors Praise Prohibition

Brown University

Complication of abbreviated editorial opinions on temperance. Complication of abbreviated editorial opinions on temperance.

Eddie Harold

Eddie Harold

Brown University

By Rev. James B. Dunn At head of title cut of boy and men in saloon. At upper right corner of page [1]: No. 14. Caption title.

Economic benefits of prohibition

Economic benefits of prohibition

Brown University

by Irving Fisher. Statement made before the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Prohibition, April, 1926. Cover title.

Drink for sale

Drink for sale

Brown University

Author illustrated. At end of text: Dedicated at the Anti-Saloon lecture by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay.