The Drunkard's Progress
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The Drunkard's Progress: From the First Glass to the Grave is an 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier. It is a nine-step lebenstreppe on a stone arch depicting a man's journey through alcoholism. Thro
The Drunkard's Progress: From the First Glass to the Grave. Nathaniel Currier 1846.
The Drunkard's Progress, or The Direct Road to Poverty, Wretchedness, & Ruin. John Warner Barber 1826.
The Drunkard's Progress. Kellogg Brothers 1864.
Temperance movement
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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
The Drunkard's Progress
…released, but it influenced other temperance-themed works. The Drunkard's Progress is used in high school American history classes to teach about the temperance movement. From the 1800s until the start of Prohibition in 1920, the temperance movement was a major force in American life, advocating a ban on alcoholic…
"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