Images of Families of Pre-Prohibition 1912-1917

This image shows off the despair that happens when the drunkard comes home after spending all day at the saloon. The wife is visibly depressed whilce holding another child away from their father. 

Three children wait outside during the hottest day of the summer. Their father had spent all his money on booze instead of getting something to cool them down during the heat. This leads to unnecessary suffering onto the children.

Alcoholic men are pushing and dragging their families into a cliff destruction due to their appetite for liquor. 

A father offering rounds on him at the saloon constrasting the image of him at home he's annoyed that his daughter asks him for money. 

The paycheck meant for supplying and supporting a family is spent on booze instead. Seeing this the children in the image are deeply saddened since they will not get new clothes for winter.

Two children are writing a letter to Santa while their mother works in the background, and their father sleeps with a booze bottle nearby. They will not get any Christmas presents because their father does not support them.

A mother reads her child to sleep, but the saloon's presence can be felt as like a haunting ghost.

A mother and her two children stare at their destroyed home that was wreaked due to the influence of alcohol. The mother is physically, and mentally broken with her children also look to their home in saddness.

Young girls wake up to see their Chirstmas presents from Santa but instead of presents they are greeted with booze, and empty stockings. They are deeply depressed at the sight of the mess that was made.

Displays what a normal family life should look like on the Thanksgiving hoilday. One is with the father spending time with his daughter, and providing for her. The other daughter is frail, and waiting for her father to come out the saloon.

The family is surrounded by liquor and seem to be drinking. A saloon owner hammers a sign that states that the child will also go up tyo be an alcoholic.

This poster dicusses the impact that drinking while pregnant can have on dogs, and likely humans as well. They compare the puppies and the ones that mothers' drank were more likely to be deformed.

Are children's feeblemindedness caused by drinking while pregnant? This poster seems to believe so with misconstrued evidence comparing children from alcoholics and non-drinkers.

The poster shows a graph of alcoholic's children growth rate of teeth to non-drinkers' children's teet. Alcoholic's babies would have the slowest teeth growth from the three different groups.

A drinker signs a contract with the bottle of alcohol that his children are more likely to be slow, and more likely to be prone to dieases, etc.

A mother grieves the fact that her son has became a saloon visister, and no longer is the innocent boy she once knew.

Those families that were destroyed from alcohol should be honored since they allow the government to continue working. They should be honored like veterans with a monument.

Children telling people to vote against alcohol since every person deserves the right to be well born, and not disabled due to drinking while pregnant.

A father while at a saloon wonders where does all his end up going since he makes a decent wage. He doe not realize that he has been spending all of his money on alcohol instead of his family.