'Devil's Toboggan Slide' broadside   Save
Temperance Broadsides Collection
Description: Broadside titled 'Devil's Toboggan Slide' depicting the evils of alcohol, published by the National Temperance Society. The illustration depicts a young man progressively sliding to a "drunkard's grave" through the use of cider, beer, wine and whiskey. The stages he descends through begin at a "popular hotel or drug store, " then to "saloons, " "doggery , " "gambling hell" and "corruption" to a "drunkard's grave" and death. The National Temperance Society and Publication House operated from 1865 until 1915, and published a huge variety of material in support of the Temperance movement--many materials with a religious slant. Temperance was an organized effort during the 19th and early 20th centuries to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages in the United States, eventually resulting in the passage of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution which went into effect in 1920. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: VFM5786_01
Subjects: Temperance--History; Alcoholic beverages; Prohibition; Social movements
Places: Temperance Broadsides Collection