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Faith hope charity : Inebriate's express

Description: Image of a series of vignettes advocating temperance; scenes illustrating the adverse effects of alcohol and tobacco are contrasted with scenes showing the benefits of a life without; train at center labeled "Gin Fiend" heads toward "Tobacco Land" with demons around it and the devil beckoning from a hole in the ground, torch in hand; images of angels interspersed throughout; allegorical women at left and right symbolizing "Truth" and "Temperance."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1870
Call number: priJLC_POL_002671
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)

Black Valley railroad

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Image of a mock train schedule poster promoting temperance by warning of the effects of alcohol and smoking; train with "Distillery" locomotive and bar car showing people drinking inside pulls away from "Drunkards Curve" station towards a dark area full of demons; horse-drawn ambulance vehicles pick up passengers who have disembarked; diagrams of a stomach in various states of decline due to alcohol consumption at left and right center of print.

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Image of a mock train schedule poster promoting temperance by warning of the effects of alcohol and smoking; train with "Alcohol" locomotive and bar car showing people drinking inside pulls away from "Drunkards Curve" station towards a dark area full of demons; horse-drawn ambulance vehicles pick up passengers who have disembarked; diagrams of a stomach lining in various states of decline due to alcohol consumption at bottom left and right; train stops at destinations "Sippington" through to "Destruction" at left and right of image.

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Faith hope charity : Inebriate's express

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