Whiskey Crusaders outside saloon photograph   Save
Temperance Crusade Collection
Description: This is a stereograph showing an organized protest held by women against the legal sale of alcohol as part of the Hillsboro Temperance Movement. Handwritten caption on the back reads "Temperance Robert Ward's Saloon first place attacked." The Temperance Movement was an organized effort during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages in the United States. Often women crusaders would picket outside of saloons and liquor vendors who refused to stop selling alcohol. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC5354_007_01
Subjects: Temperance; Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Women social reformers - Ohio; Prohibition
Places: Hillsboro (Ohio); Highland County (Ohio)