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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, August 15, 1913
A young boy surrounded by many different types of liquor blocking his path to success. He is dwarfed in size by the many different bottles who are determined to stop him from achieving his victory in having a good life.
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.
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.
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…
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…