Description: This photograph shows a large parade of women marching in Cleveland. One woman holds a sign stating, "Women Started the Playground Movement." The Playground Movement was a progressive reform movement that believed recreational activity would benefit mental and physical well-being, particularly among children. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00074
Subjects: Cuyahoga County (Ohio); Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Women social reformers - Ohio; Social movements; Parades & processions;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing women of the Women's Christian Temperance Union outside a saloon in Hillsboro, Ohio. The sign on the building reads "J.W. Bales Dealer in Pure Wines and Liquors." 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. In 1874, a group of Cleveland women established the Women's Christian Temperance Union. This organization pressured the Ohio and federal governments to implement Prohibition, which would outlaw the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol. From the mid 1870s to the early 1890s, the WCTU was the major organization within the United States seeking Prohibition. Its members utilized rather extreme tactics to convince Americans to abstain from alcohol. Members picketed bars and saloons, prayed for the souls of the bar patrons, and also tried to block the entryways of establishments that sold liquor. By the 1890s, groups such as the American Anti-Saloon League had joined the Women's Christian Temperance Union in its push for Prohibition. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC1493_002_01
Subjects: Women social reformers - Ohio; Other--Social Welfare; Temperance--History; Alcoholic beverages; Demonstrations
Places: Hillsboro (Ohio); Highland County (Ohio);
 

Description: Photograph showing a crowd gathered outside Wholesale Liquor & Tobacco as a group of women protest for the Temperance movement. 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. In 1874, a group of Cleveland women established the Women's Christian Temperance Union. This organization pressured the Ohio and federal governments to implement Prohibition, which would outlaw the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol. From the mid 1870s to the early 1890s, the WCTU was the major organization within the United States seeking Prohibition. Its members utilized rather extreme tactics to convince Americans to abstain from alcohol. Members picketed bars and saloons, prayed for the souls of the bar patrons, and also tried to block the entryways of establishments that sold liquor. By the 1890s, groups such as the American Anti-Saloon League had joined the Women's Christian Temperance Union in its push for Prohibition. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC1102_001_01
Subjects: Women social reformers - Ohio; Other--Social Welfare; Temperance--History; Alcoholic beverages; Demonstrations
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Group of female Temperance Crusaders (and one man at center) dumping over barrels of liquor or beer. 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. In 1874, a group of Cleveland women established the Women's Christian Temperance Union. This organization pressured the Ohio and federal governments to implement Prohibition, which would outlaw the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol. From the mid 1870s to the early 1890s, the WCTU was the major organization within the United States seeking Prohibition. Its members utilized rather extreme tactics to convince Americans to abstain from alcohol. Members picketed bars and saloons, prayed for the souls of the bar patrons, and also tried to block the entryways of establishments that sold liquor. By the 1890s, groups such as the American Anti-Saloon League had joined the Women's Christian Temperance Union in its push for Prohibition. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC1102_002
Subjects: Women social reformers - Ohio; Other--Social Welfare; Temperance--History; Alcoholic beverages; Demonstrations
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Large group of men and several women gathered outside of Family Groceries in Waynesville, Ohio, during the Women's Temperance Crusade of 1873-1874. The women were protesting the sale of alcoholic beverages. 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. In 1874, a group of Cleveland women established the Women's Christian Temperance Union. This organization pressured the Ohio and federal governments to implement Prohibition, which would outlaw the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol. From the mid 1870s to the early 1890s, the WCTU was the major organization within the United States seeking Prohibition. Its members utilized rather extreme tactics to convince Americans to abstain from alcohol. Members picketed bars and saloons, prayed for the souls of the bar patrons, and also tried to block the entryways of establishments that sold liquor. By the 1890s, groups such as the American Anti-Saloon League had joined the Women's Christian Temperance Union in its push for Prohibition. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC1337_001_01
Subjects: Women social reformers - Ohio; Other--Social Welfare; Temperance--History; Alcoholic beverages; Demonstrations
Places: Waynesville (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio);
 

Description: 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. This illustration of the Ohio Whiskey War, more commonly known as the Women's Temperance Crusade, appears in "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper." It depicts the ladies of Logan singing hymns in front of bar rooms in support of the Temperance movement. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04188
Subjects: Temperance; Women social reformers - Ohio; Other--Social Welfare
Places: Logan (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: This illustration depicts a large group of crusaders for Temperance and Prohibition in front of a family grocery store in Waynesville, Ohio. In 1874, a group of Cleveland women established the Women's Christian Temperance Union. This organization pressured the Ohio and federal governments to implement Prohibition, which would outlaw the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol. From the mid 1870s to the early 1890s, the WCTU was the major organization within the United States seeking Prohibition. Its members utilized rather extreme tactics to convince Americans to abstain from alcohol. Members picketed bars and saloons, prayed for the souls of the bar patrons, and also tried to block the entryways of establishments that sold liquor. By the 1890s, groups such as the American Anti-Saloon League had joined the Women's Christian Temperance Union in its push for Prohibition. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04189
Subjects: Temperance; Women social reformers - Ohio; Other--Social Welfare; Activists
Places: Waynesville (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio)
 

Description: This 1873 illustration, which depicts women pleading with a saloon keeper, appears in "Pathways of Progress: A Short History of Ohio," by David Bowman. The women pictured are members of the Temperance Movement, which 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. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04201
Subjects: Temperance; Women social reformers - Ohio; Other--Social Welfare; Activists
 

Description: A group of women kneeling on the sidewalk outside of J. C. Mader's Saloon in Bucyrus, Ohio during the Women's Temperance Crusade of 1873-1874. The women were protesting the sale of alcoholic beverages. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01173
Subjects: Women social reformers - Ohio; Other--Social Welfare
Places: Bucyrus (Ohio)
 

Description: Reproduction of a portrait depicting Victoria Claflin Woodhull from Homer, Ohio. Woodhull was one of the most controversial women of the 19th century. Rejecting conventional women's roles, she toured the country speaking on such topics as women's rights and social reform for women. In 1871, she testified before Congress in an attempt to gain women's rights through the citizenship guarantees of the 14th and 15th amendments. When Congress denied her claims, Woodhull decided to run for president of the United States the following year as the Equal Rights Party Candidate. She and her sister Tennessee Claflin became the first women to own and operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street, and also published a newspaper titled "Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly." Woodhull was at the center of many scandals and eventually even the most radical members of the woman's rights movement tried to distance themselves from her. She moved to England in 1877 and later married an Englishman. She died in 1927. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01099
Subjects: Women's rights; Women social reformers - Ohio; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Political campaigns
Places: Homer (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of labor leader Jacob S. Coxey as a young man, ca. 1894. Coxey was known as "General Coxey" and received national recognition when he led an "Industrial Army" of unemployed workers to Washington, D. C. to protest the federal government's response to the economic depression of the 1890s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01140
Subjects: Social reformers; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
 

Description: Carte de visite portrait of Reverend James Poindexter (1819-1907) of the Second Baptist Church in Columbus, Ohio. Born in Virginia, Reverend Poindexter settled in Columbus in his youth and worked as a barber. He was ordained at the Second Baptist Church in 1849, and later served as its pastor from for several decades. He was politically active in the Columbus community in the abolition movement, education, the Underground Railroad and city council, among other causes. In 1940, Poindexter became the namesake of Poindexter Village, the first public housing development in Ohio and the second in the country, constructed as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P104_B01F03_01
Subjects: Poindexter, James Preston, 1819-1907; Abolitionists -- Ohio; Civil rights; Social reformers; African American Ohioans;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)