The down hill road - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress

Print showing "The new year - how they began" and "The old year - how they came out" a series of vignettes depicting a man and a woman, each taking a first drink, until they succomb to alcoholism. The central panel details a young man taking leave of his mother, giving in to alcohol, and ending in the grave over which his mother mourns.
1038 U.S. Copyright Office.

Premium picture for subscribers to The Christian, a large, 16-page family illustrated Christian Temperance paper, $1.00 a year in advance.
Copyright by H.L. Hastings, 1878.