The Woman's Christian Temperance Union is an international temperance organization. It was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and
This 1902 illustration by Rea Irvin from the Hawaiian Gazette newspaper humorously illustrates the Anti-Saloon League and the Women's Christian Temperance Union's campaign against the producers and sellers of beers in Hawaii.
Women of the WCTU at a meeting, 1924
WCTU display booth at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, 1945
Exterior of the National WCTU headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, a building on the national register of historic places
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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
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
…The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an international temperance organization. It was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through…
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