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Prohibition

Possible Resources

Books and Journals (some are online)

The Bureau of Prohibition, its history, activities and organization by Laurence F. Schmeckebier (Laurence Frederick), 1877-1959. Brookings Institution. Institute for Government Research.Laurence F. Schmeckebier (Laurence Frederick), 1877-1959. Brookings Institutio
Call Number: CSL Stacks HV5089 .S3 1929
Publication Date: 1929
Online at Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/bureauofprohibit001615mbp and https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.48600
Connecticut Woman's Christian Temperance Union [minutes and reports bound together] by Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Connecticut
Call Number: CSL Stacks HV5235.C8 C6 (years)
Minutes and reports of annual conventions are bound together by year. Several volumes in stacks, other material in Special Collections.
The Union signal; a journal of social welfare by Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Call Number: CSL Special Collections HV5285 .U65 oversize
A journal of social welfare that may contain useful articles.
Available in
- Hathi Trust https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011985198
- Internet Archive https://archive.org/search.php?query=Union%20signal%20a%20journal%20of%20social%20welfare

Other suggestions. Check if your local library has it with combined Catalog (findIT-CT) https://finditct.org/eg/opac/home

Well-tempered women: nineteenth-century temperance rhetoric. by Carol Mattingly. Publisher: Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, ©1998.

Alcoholic Beverage Industry: Historical Resources at the Library of Congress
Bibliography from Library of Congress - not necessarily at Connecticut State library, or even online.
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Article/Guide from:
BERA (Business & Economics Research Advisor) Issue 23: Spring 2015

Websites

These are websites outside of the Connecticut State Library's holdings. The library neither endorses nor condemns any organization.

Alcohol, Temperance and Prohibition Collection from Brown Digital Repository
Site description: "The digitized items in the Alcohol, Temperance and Prohibition Collection are from the Alcoholism and Addiction Studies Collection, as well as from various collections in the Brown University Library — broadsides, sheet music, pamphlets and government publications.
The items have been collected at Brown for over three centuries for researchers and scholars at Brown and worldwide interested in American history, including the history of alcoholism, how the media was used for spreading ideas and information, and in how the arts presented various movements."
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library Collections
Site description: "The Brown University Library, in support of the University's educational and research mission, is the local repository for and the principal gateway to current information and the scholarly record. As such, it is simultaneously collection, connection, and classroom, primarily for the current and future students and faculty of the University, while also serving other colleagues in the University community and our regional, national, and global communities of learning and scholarship."
Radical Woman in a Classic Town. Frances Willard of Evanston
Northwestern University website on Frances Willard. Detailed description under "more info"
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Site description in the ABOUT page: "This Web site seeks to replicate the experience of viewing the “Radical Woman in a Classic Town” exhibit by reproducing images of all the photographs, documents, and artifacts used in the exhibit, matched with all the descriptive captions. The Index in the banner lists the “Chapters” in the virtual exhibit. Each “Chapter” represents one of the themed display cases in the original exhibit. A final section lists resources for further reading and research"
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Site for the current WCTU organization

Databases

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New York Times (1851-2019) with Index (1851-1993)
Historical New York Times with Index.Coverage: Full-text: 1851-2019. Index: 1851-1993.

Women's Christian Temperance Movement

Woman's Christian Temperance Union

These are just some items on prohibition and Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

Sometimes Woman's is used, and sometimes Women's is used. Try searching both.

Search our catalog for many more items than listed.

Suggested terms: Temperance ; Prohibition ; 18th Amendment

WCTU Books, Documents, etc.

Books, Documents, etc.

Report of the ... convention of the Connecticut Woman's Christian Temperance Union by Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Connecticut.
Call Number: Stacks HV5235.C8 C6
Check library catalog record for years, as well as previous and later titles.
The White Ribbon Banner by Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Connecticut
Call Number: Stacks HV5235.C8 C6
See library catalog for details of years.
"Official organ of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Connecticut.".
The Union Signal; A Journal of Social Welfare by Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Call Number: Special Collections HV5285 .U65 oversize - must be used in secured collections area
Check library catalog for date range.
Glimpses of Fifty Years : The Autobiography of an American Woman by Willard, Frances E.
Call Number: online and Stacks HV5232.W6 A3 item does not circulate
Publication Date: 1889
Online access through our library catalog
Connecticut Counselor by Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Connecticut
Call Number: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS SpecColl HV5235.C8 W45
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS - must be used in Secured Collection Area.
See library catalog for date range.
Woman and temperance : or, The work and workers of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union by Frances E. Willard (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898. Mary A Lathbury (Mary Artemisia), 1841-1913
Call Number: CSL Stacks HV5227 .W6 1886
Publication Date: 1886
Full text available at
- Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/womantemperanceo00willa
- Hathi Trust https://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/5036278.html

WCTU Other Institutions

Other Institutions

National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Site for the current WCTU organization