SAM DeVINCENT COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN SHEET MUSIC, ca. 1790 - 1987
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Container List

Series 5: POLITICS AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS, ca. 1817-1982

by: Karen Linn, 1991

Subseries 5.5 : Prohibition and Temperance

Box 17

Folder

Temperance Songs from the 19th Century, ca. 1840-1896:

A -- A - F

B -- G - Z

Most of the songs date between 1860-1880.  There are two songs by Mrs. E.A. (Susan) Parkhurst and several editions of Henry Clay Work's "Come Home Father." Many of the songs are about "father" and are related to the story of the temperance drama "Ten Nights in a Barroom." (32 items) Click here for image, #2

Prohibition and Temperance, 20th Century, ca. 1900-1934:

C -- A - O

D -- P - Z

Most of the songs are about Prohibition, both pro and con.  "Dry campaigns," bootlegging, repeal of prohibition, closing of barrooms, etc. are all topics. General songs about alcohol have not been included here but can be found elsewhere in the DeVincent Collection.   (80 items) Click here for images, #2, #3.

Box 18

Folder

E -- Prohibition and Temperance Folios, ca. 1866-1933:

Small booklets of Temperance songs except one 1933 booklet of drinking, college, and general get-together songs published upon the occasion of the repeal of Prohibition.     (7 items)

F -- Sunday Blue Laws, 1921 (4 items)

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