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Box 1

 Container

Contains 178 Results:

Poem, "The elder's sermon", n.d.

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Object: 19
Scope and Contents

Printed poem glued to paper. On verso: "Touch not the wine" by A.B. Ridlon, poem glued to paper. No dates on either.

Dates: n.d.

Clipping, "Alcohol's alphabet", n.d.

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Object: 20
Scope and Contents

Glued to paper. On verso: "A last honr." Half of a poem glued to paper. No dates on either.

Dates: n.d.

Poems, n.d.

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Object: 21
Scope and Contents

Thirteen poems glued to one sheet of paper. Poems (on both sides of paper): "And his will is our peace," "A cobweb party," "Life," "A picture," "Morning," "The ship builder" by Capt. A.P. Wait, "What the old cow said," "The house that rum built," "Boys, don't use tobacco," "Two years ago," "Think not," "The reconciliation," and "A variation on Tennyson's tune."

Dates: n.d.

Sheet music, "The drunkard song," Rudy Valle

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Object: 22
Scope and Contents From the File:

Note that an additional piece of sheet music is located in Box 3 and an additional theater bill in oversize drawer 12, due to size.

Dates: 1864 - 1930

Sheet music, "The alcoholic blues"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Object: 23
Scope and Contents

Words by Edward Laska, music by Albert Vontilzer.

Dates: 1864 - 1930

"Maine campaign prohibition songs," W.C.T.U., 1910

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Object: 24
Scope and Contents From the File:

Note that an additional piece of sheet music is located in Box 3 and an additional theater bill in oversize drawer 12, due to size.

Dates: 1910

Prohibition program, "Sense versus license", May 7, 1896

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Object: 25
Scope and Contents

An entertainment at Town Hall, Gray, Me.

Dates: May 7, 1896

Ballot information and voting propaganda

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Content note From the Collection: Materials relating to the temperance movement, chiefly in Maine, but also in the U.S. Includes clippings, correspondence, advertisements, ballot information, short stories and poems, sheet music, Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) information, records of various temperance organizations (by-laws, constitutions, membership statistics), laws, posters, minutes, pledges, tavern records, mss., and printed information. Also contains materials of/and relating to Lillian M.N. Stevens and...
Dates: 1830 - 1966; Majority of material found within 1830 - 1920

Card, "How to vote", n.d.

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Object: 1
Scope and Contents

Card indicates how to mark ballot to vote against saloons.

Dates: n.d.

Pamphlet, "Does no-license pay? Is prohibition profitable?"

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Object: 2
Scope and Contents

Pamphlet published by the State Committee of the No-License Movement, Portland, Maine. Hon. Adam P. Leighton, Chairman, and George W. Norton, Secretary.

Dates: 1830 - 1966; Majority of material found within 1830 - 1920