Grand, national, temperance banner: dedicated to every son & daughter of temperance, throughout the union / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

Print shows a young man standing in between two young women tempting him; woman on left dressed in white holds a glass with a white beverage; woman on right dressed in blue pulls on his arm while holding a glass with red wine; he's pulled towards a side table with alcohol, cards, dice, and a snake coiled around its base; overhead a curtain valance has Virtue, Love & Temperance.

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2728

Exhibited: Prohibition, National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, Pa.

Inscribed below image: Recd at D of S. off. 12st 384. Deposited in the Clerk's Office So. Dist. N.Y. Jany 22, 1851.

No. 59.

young adults temptation temperance lithographs hand colored grand banner temperance banner son daughter union pub currier 1851 prints 19th century popular graphic arts n currier firm new york pennsylvania detroit publishing company photograph collection library of congress

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