Image of a mock train schedule poster promoting temperance by warning of the effects of alcohol and smoking; train with "Alcohol" locomotive and bar car showing people drinking inside pulls away from "Drunkards Curve" station towards a dark area full of demons; horse-drawn ambulance vehicles pick up passengers who have disembarked; diagrams of a stomach lining in various states of decline due to alcohol consumption at bottom left and right; train stops at destinations "Sippington" through to "Destruction" at left and right of image. "New Eng. Lith. Co. 109 Summer St. Boston,"--text, bottom center margin. "National Temperance Society J.N. Stearns, Agent, 172 William St. New York."--text, bottom center margin. "Accidents by collisions entirely avoided, as only down-trains are run over the road. Tickets sold at all liquor shops. Look out for pickpockets while purchasing tickets. Key to the picture. In the background on the left, a train is starting..."--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 44.13 x 60.8 cm (17 3/8 x 23 15/16 in.)
Alcoholics--Pictorial works Bars (Drinking establishments)--Pictorial works Horse-drawn vehicles--Pictorial works Railroad trains--Pictorial works Stomach--Pictorial works Temperance National Temperance Society (New York, N.Y.) Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Politics & Social Issues Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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