Women pleading with saloon keeper illustration   Save
Ohio History Connection Archives/Library
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
Places: Ohio History Connection Archives/Library