Posters of The American Issue
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Title
Posters of The American Issue
Subject
Displays the many different posters that The American Issue had made. Newspaper fronts from The American Issue. Each one of them in different in their messaging but are all on newspapers.
Description
Posters from The American Issue. Each one of them was sold by the The American Issue as poster to be displayed. Each one has a different message but share the opinion that alcohol should be banished.
Creator
Posters of The American Issue
Source
HathiTrust
Publisher
University of Michigan
Date
1912-19??
Rights
Public Domain
Format
PDFS
Language
English
Type
Posters
Identifier
OwnerID: 13510798896850504-22 / Seq: 18
Coverage
Prohibition
Collection Items
Thirty-Six States Can Stop This By Constitutional Amendment. Series G. No. 19.
Its a couple in the background they have their child in the the cradle which is being looked after by the saloon. The kid has inherited his parent's alcoholism and will follow the footsteps of its' parents.
The Titanic Carried 1503 People. Series E No. 40
The poster shows an image of the Titanic with a shocking caption below:"DRINK CARRIES OFF 1,503 MEN AND WOMEN EVERY EIGHT DAYS IN THE YEAR. ONE MAN IN EVERY SEVEN AND A HALF WHO DIES IN THE UNITED STATES LOSES HIS LIFE AS THE DIRECT OR INDIRECT…
A Great Russian Victory. Series K. No 1
This poster discusses Russia's recent government enforced prohibition, highlighting how citizens saved money by not drinking while acknowledging the state's lost alcohol revenue. It argues that such government intervention succeeded in Russia and…
Alcoholic Dogs Had more Feeble and Defective Puppies.
In this poster it shows a graph of dogs that were feed alcohol compared to dogs that did not. The dogs that were given alcohol only 17% of their puppies survived compared to dogs that did not drink 90% of their puppies lived.
Hand and Hand Feeblemindedness and Alcoholism
The poster presents two pie graphs with manipulated data:
Graph 1: Percentage of 250 "feebleminded" children with alcoholic parents
Graph 2: Percentage of 100 "normal" children with alcoholic parents
By using unequal sample sizes (250 vs. 100),…
Alcohol and Citizenship
The poster puts a lot of emphasis onto the citizens of the nation. Without citizens resisting harmful supposedly then the nation will fall. This type of writing makes the reader very motivated to actually push towards banning alcohol.
Drinkers' Children Developed More Slowly
The poster features two comparative graphs tracking teething across three groups: abstainers, moderate drinkers, and frequent drinkers.
Top graph, cut teeth by eight months:
72% of abstainers’ children had cut teeth by eight months
66% of…