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The American Issue, July 6, 1917
A young daughter is holding her father. He has to make the decision to spend all his money at the saloon or get the shoes that his daughter needs. He is only looking at the alcohol even though his daughter is holding him tightly.
The American Issue, September 17, 1915
A women walks into her bathroom and sees her maid clean up the water that is flowing from the faucet, but the faucet is still running so her work is in vain. The faucet is labeled as saloon and the water coming out was labeled as crime.
The American Issue, August 22, 1913
Displays some of the many victims of those who drink. Mothers and children are heavily effected since they depended onto fathers who drank. Or it also shows a mother who had lost her son due the abuse of alcohol, and killed him.
The American Issue, February 28, 1913
A mother stares longingly at a old photo of her son. Her son now is a saloon wasting all his money on gambling and alcohol he is no longer the once pure little boy she once had.
The American Issue, November 7, 1913
The comic is of an American flag being flown above many alcoholic exhausts which tarnish the flag. Staining the flag with alcoholic desire instead of the glory it used to have.
The American Issue, November 8, 1912
The comic shows a old mangy dog with poverty written on it back surrounded by hundreds of alcoholic bottles. There is also a sign on the side that reads "NEWS ITEM (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) NEW YORK OCT 28- A 'STRAW VOTE' OF NEARLY 20,000 DESTITUTE…
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…
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.
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),…
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.