Amelia Jenks Bloomer was an American newspaper editor, women's rights and temperance advocate. Even though she did not create the women's clothing reform style known as bloomers, her name became assoc
Portrait of Bloomer from A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life by Frances Willard, 1893
Statue, called "When Anthony Met Stanton", immortalizing the 1851 meeting of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Amelia Bloomer in Seneca Falls, New York.
The temperance movement is a social movement promoting temperance or total abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages. Participants in the movement typically criticize alcohol intoxication or
Amelia Bloomer
…Amelia Jenks Bloomer (May 27, 1818 – December 30, 1894) was an American newspaper editor, women's rights and temperance advocate. Even though she did not create the women's clothing reform style known as bloomers, her name became associated with it because of her early…
The Drunkard's Progress (1846) by Nathaniel Currier warns that moderate drinking may lead to suicide step by step.
"L'Alcool est un Poison", 1910, in the Jenevermuseum Hasselt, contrasting "those who live from it" (people selling alcohol) with "those who die from it" (an alcoholic and his family).
Songbook used at the Women's Temperance Organization from Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania.
Sons of Temperance procession, Hill End, New South Wales, 1872