Temperance tracts
Scope and Contents
An assortment of tracts from the National Temperance Society and Publication House in New York (two spearate series), and the "Gospel Temperance Tracts" series published by the Orphan's Printing Press of Leominster, England. Many of the pamphlets include a single wood-engraved illustration.
Dates
- Creation: 1870-1900
Creator
- The National temperance society and publication house (Organization)
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research use.
Use Restrictions
Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
Historical Note
The National Temperance Society and Publication House was based in New York. Founded in 1865, it published thousands of pamphlets and broadside to advocate temperance, in addition to three monthly magazines. The organization also lobbied Congress on the issue of Prohibition and attempted to introduce temperance textbooks into schools.
Found in 1873 by Henry Stanley Newman, a Quaker philanthropist, the Leominster Orphan's Press was intended to provide training for the printing trade. Profits subsidized the local orphanage. Most of the press's output was religious tracts.
Extent
.1 linear ft. (1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
An assortment of tracts from the National Temperance Society and Publication House in New York (two spearate series), and the "Gospel Temperance Tracts" series published by the Orphan's Printing Press of Leominster, England. Many of the pamphlets include a single wood-engraved illustration.
Arrangement
Arranged by publisher and in numbered order of the tracts therin.
Processing Information
Processed by Sarah Horowitz; completed March, 2017.
Topical
- Title
- Temperance tracts, 1870-1900
- Author
- Sarah Horowitz
- Date
- March, 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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