Washingtonians, Temperance, & Prohibition

Abstinence Wins – Early 20th-Century Temperance Promotional Card Issued by the Board of Temperance, Washington D.C. This original early–20th centur...

Set of Three Early Sons of Temperance Publications (ca. 1850–1855) Including: “The Sons of Temperance Offering” (1851); “Constitution and By-Laws f...

Liberty Magazine — June 27, 1942 Featuring: “Prohibition – Will It Happen Again?” by Frederick L. Collins Published by Macfadden Publications, Inc....

National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union – Leaflet No. 7: “Where Are We Drifting?” by Mrs. J.C. Bateham, Superintendent Published by the Sabbath...

Henry William Blair’s The Temperance Movement or The Conflict Between Man and Alcohol presents a sweeping denunciation of intemperance, framing alc...

Book Details Title: Alcohol: Its Nature and Effects. Ten Lectures Author: Dr. Charles A. Story (of Chicago) Signed: No Publisher: National Tem...

Book Details Title: Strong Drink; The Curse and the Cure Author: T. S. Arthur Signed: No Publisher: Hubbard Brothers (Philadelphia, Cincinn...

Book Details Title: Alcohol and Science; or, Alcohol: What It Is, and What It Does Author: Wm. Hargreaves, M.D. Signed: No Publisher: National...

Book Details Title: Ten Nights in a Bar-Room; and What I Saw There Author: T. S. Arthur Signed: No Publisher: A. L. Burt Company (New York) ...

Book Details Title: Woman to the Rescue: A Story of the New Crusade Author: T. S. Arthur Signed: No Publisher: Arthur’s Select Works Publishi...

Orange Blossoms: Fresh and Faded – Alta Edition (1871) Author: T.S. Arthur Publisher: Porter & Coates, Philadelphia Copyright: 1871, J.M. Stod...

Book Details Title: Three Years in a Man-Trap Author: T. S. Arthur Signed: No Publisher: Hubbard Brothers (Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago,...

Book Details Title: Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and What I Saw There Author: T. S. Arthur Signed: No Publisher: Porter & Coates, Philade...

Book Details Title: Three Years in a Man-Trap Author: T. S. Arthur Signed: No Publisher: J. M. Stoddart & Co. (Philadelphia) Edition: First Edi...

Platform Echoes: or Living Truths for Head and Heart – John B. Gough (1887) Author: John B. GoughPublisher: A.D. Worthington & Co., Hartford, ...

Book Details Title: The Temperance Reform and Its Great Reformers: An Illustrated History Author: Rev. W. H. Daniels, A.M. (Editor) Signed: No Pub...

Book Details Title: The Life of D. L. Moody (by His Son) Author: William R. Moody Signed: No Publisher: Sword of the Lord Publishers, Murfre...

The Wicked John Goode (A True Story) By Horace Winthrop Scandlin — Signed by John GoodePublished by The Christian Herald, New York, 1917 This remar...

This is the popular book titled John Barleycorn by Jack London and is an extremely rare copy with the original dust jacket. This is a First Printin...

Report of the Executive Committee of the American Temperance Union - 1844 PLEDGE OF THE UNION. WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, DO AGREE, THAT WE WILL NOT USE ...

Report of the Executive Committee of the American Temperance Union - 1845 PLEDGE OF THE UNION. WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, DO AGREE, THAT WE WILL NOT USE ...

Asylum by William Seabrook. This book has a copyright date from 1935 and comes with the original dust jacket. The amazingly candid story of William...

Temperance or Prohibition?  This is a first edition from 1929 with the original dust jacket. About this book: “A BOOK of evidence indicating the Am...

Dave Ranney or Thirty Years on the Bowery: An Autobiography - 1910 From the introduction: ”The autobiography which this book contains is that of a ...

The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus by Bruce Barton. This book is a title that was in Dr. Bob Smith’s personal library and a book t...

Wreckage: A Drama in Three Acts by J. Hartley Manners. This book was published in  1916 by Dodd, Mead and Company. This is a three act play about t...

ELEVEN YEARS A DRUNKARD, - OR - THE LIFE OF THOMAS DONER Having Lost Both Arms Through Intemperance,He wrote this book with his teethAS A WARNING T...

Ten Nights in a Bar-Room: A Temperance Drama in Five Acts FOUNDED ON MR. T. S. ARTHUR'S NOVELBY WILLIAM W. PRATT REVISED EDITION, GIVING CAST OF CH...

Platform Echoes, or Living Truths for Head and Heart, by John B. Gough John B. Gough was a popular orator in the temperance movement in the United...

The Wrecker Robert Louis Stevensona and Lloyd Osbourne - 1891 Excerpt from the book: I had to content myself by pretending very arduously to be poo...

Strong Drink: The Curse and the Cure T.S. Arthur, from 1877 Excerpt from the publisher: We have one of those intensely wrought temperance stories f...

Ten Nights in a Bar Room - T.S. Arthur ‘Ten Nights in a Bar Room,’ considered by many to be one of the best temperance novels of the 19th century, ...

Temperance and the Changing Liquor Situation - Deets Pickett Published by New York, The Methodist Book Concern [C1934], 1934 Book is in very go...