Ten Nights in a Bar Room Handbill
Ten Nights in a Bar Room Handbill
- Description (Brief)
- Handbill from Ten Nights in a Bar Room, which was adapted for the stage from the 1854 novel of the same name written by Timothy Shay Arthur. The book advocated for temperance and the Cult of Domesticity and was the first work to openly call for prohibition.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Playbill
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 14 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in; 36.83 cm x 26.67 cm
- ID Number
- 1981.0859.02
- accession number
- 1981.0859
- catalog number
- 1981.0859.02
- Credit Line
- Gift of Donald T. McDaniel
- subject
- Theater
- Temperance
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Entertainment
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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