The Acquisitions Table: No License

No license. A question to be settled in the State of New York. New York: Journal of the American Temperance Union, 1846. On linen. This textile broadside was issued as an extra to the Journal of the American Temperance Union during the 1846 elections in New York State.  That year, every one of the 800+ towns ...

The DTs

Representation of the progress of intemperance 1841

After supper Pap took the jug, and said he had enough whiskey there for two drunks and one delirium tremens. – Huckleberry Finn Delirium Tremens: the strange affliction of “being tormented by devils” (Root 14) while under the influence of alcohol. The Book: The Horrors of Delirium Tremens by James Root; New York: Josiah Adams, 120 Broadway, ...