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
The temperance movement in the United States, which sought to curb the consumption of alcohol, had a large influence on American politics and American society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
…the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." It plays an influential role in the temperance movement. Originating among women in the United States Prohibition movement, the organization supported the Eighteenth Amendment and was also influential in…
The Drunkard's Progress: A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, January 1846.
Soldiers drinking whiskey and playing cards
Postcard depicting Temperance Hall
A temperance fountain in Tompkins Square Park, New York City