Anti Prohibition 1888 Barber_Word_Poster smokestacks

smokestacks

and vaudeville marquees

Five years before the log-cabin-and-hard-cider campaign that would carry him to the White House for a single month

frigid orbits

Louis Cathedral mingling with linen postcards of Mardi Gras krewes and the courtyards of the Vieux Carré

Anti Prohibition 1888 Barber_Word_Poster smokestacksAnti Prohibition 1888 a broadside from the wet side of the temperance wars, when saloon keepers, brewers, and personal liberty Democrats answered the dry crusade with ink of their own. The year sits squarely in the Cleveland interregnum, when the question of whether a republic could legislate thirst was still very much open. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National