'How To Save Our Boys' broadside   Save
Temperance Broadsides Collection
Description: Broadside titled 'How to Save Our Boys' depicting the evils of saloons and alcohol, published by the National Temperance Society. It presents a conversation between a mother and father whose son is addicted to alcohol, and carries the message "The Saloon Must Go or Our Boys Will Be Ruined. Vote Against the Saloon." At the top are two illustrations, one showing the son reading the NTS publication "The Youth's Temperance Banner, " the other showing the son drunk at a saloon. 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_03
Subjects: Temperance--History; Alcoholic beverages; Prohibition; Social movements
Places: Temperance Broadsides Collection