Temperance

Correspondence about the temperance movement in Alabama

Letters written by Beulah Bowden of Oakley and Blanchardsville, Wisconsin, to her mother Jennie D. Bowden of Brohead, Wisconsin, asa well as letters to Beulah, one with a job offer to Beulah and one letter in German. There are also includes two Christmas cards received cards from friends during the 1947 Christmas season.

This file contains one postcard to J. G. Bathwick Esq. in Green County, New York, from "Your obedient servant," Dr. Robert Boscock Lee of Coxsackie, New York. Lee requests the names of the officers of the Green County Temperance Society and asks further questions about temperance workers around the country. He mentions "the growing power of Rum," which "must be put down."

This file contains a card advertising the July 22, 1901, Grand Annual Picnic of the Coopers' International Union, Local 38, as well as an undated color cartoon depicting a woman walking down the "road to destruction" toward an "early death from dissipation."