Description: Photograph showing Temperance workers in the State Women's Christian Temperance Union Headquarters in Seattle, Washington, 1914. The eight women are posed with signs, posters and pennants in favor of the Temperance and Prohibition movements. 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: AL07629
Subjects: Prohibition; Temperance--United States; Alcoholic beverages; Social movements; Anti-Saloon League
Places: Seattle (Washington)
 

Description: This is a cartoon from the "National Temperance Advocate," a newspaper published by the National Temperance Society and Publication House, pushing moderate consumption of alcohol. Titled "The Sabbath the propose to give us," the cartoon shows men, women, and children spending the Sabbath at a tavern drinking alcohol. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08500
Subjects: Temperance--United States--1870-1880; Alcohol; Revolution, Reaction, and Reform
 

Description: This is a cartoon published in the "National Temperance Advocate," a newspaper published by the National Temperance Society and Publication House. Titled "The Sabbath they propose to take away from us" shows a family gathered in their home together. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08501
Subjects: Temperance--United States--1870-1880; Alcohol; Revolution, Reaction, and Reform
 

Description: Illustration of "The crusading women of New Vienna," from Henry Howe's "Historical Collection of Ohio," 1909. This illustration shows an organized protest held by women in support of Temperance outside of an unidentified New Vienna saloon, likely during the ca. 1870 Whiskey Crusade. 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. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04044
Subjects: Temperance--United States--1870-1880; Alcohol; Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio
Places: New Vienna (Ohio); Clinton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Georgia Hopley, journalist, suffragist, and labor reformer, ca. 1900. Hopley was born in Bucyrus, Ohio; her parents were John Prat Hopley, Sr., and Georgianna Rochester Hopley. Her father owned and managed two newspapers, the "Bucyrus Journal" and the "Bucyrus Evening Telegraph." At an early age Georgia became interested in journalism, and she went on to become a pioneering woman in that field. Her newspaper columns appeared in in various newspapers on a quasi-syndicated basis from approximately 1880 until her death in 1944. Her main interests centered on woman suffrage and the temperance movement. In addition to her work as a journalist, she was actively involved in social reform efforts. As a journalist and as a delegate, she attended various state, national, and international conventions dealing with suffrage and temperance. In fall 1901 she was appointed a special agent of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics (women in workshops and factories) and from 1921 to 1924 she was a federal prohibition agent. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00037
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Women in journalism; Temperance--United States;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an oversize advertisement for a play titled 'Ten Nights in a Barroom' (1858), a prohibitionist play by William W. Pratt based on a story by T. S. Arthur. The play tells the story of Joe Morgan, the village drunkard, who is encouraged to drink by Simon Slade, the owner of the Sickle and Sheaf bar. Even Morgan's daughter, Mary, can not stop Morgan from visiting the bar. In a barroom brawl Mary is accidentally struck by a glass thrown at her father, and the shock helps Morgan reform. Although the play was was not popular in major cities, it was second only to Uncle Tom's Cabin on rural circuits. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS7448_1
Subjects: Theaters; Advertisements; Prohibition; Alcohol; Temperance--United States
 

Description: Reproduction of an illustration depicting a group of women praying in the street, attempting to persuade a saloon keeper to stop selling alcoholic beverages, ca. 1873-1874. The caption reads "Pleading with a Saloonist." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02691
Subjects: Demonstrations; Other--Social Welfare; Temperance--United States--1870-1880
 

Description: This illustration is an engraved portrait of Mrs. Eliza "Mother" Stewart, who is wearing a dark dress with a white collar on top. The caption at the bottom of the image reads "MOTHER STEWART." Eliza Daniel Stewart, known as Mother Stewart, was influential in the Temperance movement, and helped found the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The original illustration appeared in "Woman and Temperance, or, the Work and Workers of the Women's Christian Temperance Union," by Frances E. Willard, 1884. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04299
Subjects: Women--Ohio; Other--Social Welfare; Temperance--United States--1870-1880; Women social reformers - Ohio
 

Description: This illustration is an engraved portrait of Eliza Daniel Stewart, known as Mother Stewart, ca. 1870. Stewart, who served in the Soldiers' Aid Society during the Civil War, was influential in the Temperance movement, and helped found the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The original illustration appeared in Henry Howe's "Historical Collection of Ohio," 1907. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04300
Subjects: Women--Ohio; Other--Social Welfare; Temperance--United States--1870-1880; Women social reformers - Ohio
 

Description: Georgia Eliza Hopley (1858-1944) is standing in the back row of this group identified as "newspaper women." Handwritten initials "GE" mark her position in the portrait. She is wearing a hat with a band around the crown and a ribbon or band around her neck. The women be may be attendees at a meeting (many of them are wearing ribbons similar to those worn by meeting delegates). Hopley was born in Bucyrus, Ohio; her parents were John Prat Hopley, Sr., and Georgianna Rochester Hopley. Her father owned and managed two newspapers, the "Bucyrus Journal" and the "Bucyrus Evening Telegraph." At an early age Georgia became interested in journalism, and she went on to become a pioneering woman in that field. Her newspaper columns appeared in in various newspapers on a quasi-syndicated basis from approximately 1880 until her death in 1944. Her main interests centered on woman suffrage and the temperance movement. In addition to her work as a journalist, she was actively involved in social reform efforts. As a journalist and as a delegate, she attended various state, national, and international conventions dealing with suffrage and temperance. In fall 1901 she was appointed a special agent of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics (women in workshops and factories) and from 1921 to 1924 she was a federal prohibition agent. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06072
Subjects: Journalists; Women in journalism; Temperance--United States; Suffrage--Ohio
 

Description: Illustrated portrait of Lucy Webb Hayes, from "Women and Temperance" by Frances E. Willard, 1884. An Ohio native, Webb Hayes was the wife of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes. She was a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University (then known as Wesleyan Women's College)--the first presidential spouse to graduate from university. A strong supporter of the temperance movement, she earned the nickname "Lemonade Lucy" because she refused to serve alcohol in the White House. She was also known as an advocate for the abolition of slavery, education and the rights of women. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04249
Subjects: Hayes, Lucy Webb, 1831-1889; Other--Social Welfare; Temperance--History; First ladies; Presidents' spouses--United States
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)