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Temperance (Whiskey Crusade)
Description: Group of six women on watch behind a saloon on Ward's Block in Mount Vernon, Ohio during the Women's Temperance Crusade of 1873-1874. This photograph documents the activities of women who participated in the Temperance Crusade of 1873-1874 in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The Temperance Movement was an organized effort during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages in the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00060
Subjects: Knox County (Ohio); Other--Social Welfare; Temperance--History; Activists
Places: Mount Vernon (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio)