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  • Ephemera Collection, promoting temperance
  • Ephemera Collection,promoting temperance
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the Woman's Christian Temperance Union stand. Photograph, 1904.
  • A great Temperance festival in the Corn-Exchange, Cork, in full swing. Wood-engraving after J. McDonald, 1843.
  • The tree of temperance, showing benefits caused by healthy living. Coloured lithograph, 1872.
  • Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / By John Coakley Lettsom.
  • Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / By John Coakley Lettsom.
  • Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / By John Coakley Lettsom.
  • Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / By John Coakley Lettsom.
  • Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / By John Coakley Lettsom.
  • Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / By John Coakley Lettsom.
  • Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / By John Coakley Lettsom.
  • Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science. Vol. 1 / [John Coakley Lettsom].
  • Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science. Vol. 1 / [John Coakley Lettsom].
  • The effects of temperance on a man and his household. Lithograph, c. 1840, after Gunthorp.
  • The beneficial effects of temperance on a man and his family. Lithograph, c. 1840, after Gunthorp.
  • A woman pouring wine from a jug into a goblet; representing the virtue of temperance. Etching, 16--.
  • A man standing in a law court vows to reform to temperance. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • Three poor men burdened with barrels of alcohol, being freed by a man from the Temperance Society, while a woman looks on. Wood-engraving by S. Barr, c. 1840, with letterpress.
  • A woman pours two liquids into a bowl, next to which dividers and a spoon are lying; representing temperance. Engraving after H. Goltzius.
  • The three theological virtues (Hope, Faith and Charity) are standing near an altar above which the Holy Spirit is hovering, while the the four cardinal virtues (Temperance, Justice, Fortitude and Wisdom) are sitting in the foreground. Engraving.
  • Mr. Philip Snowden says: "I believe that the drink traffic is one of the greatest evils which curse our land to-day" / issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • Contrasts in drinking of alcoholic beverages: a tavern from 1553 is contrasted with a gin-palace of 1847, temperance with drunkenness, and luxury with poverty. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).
  • "At the best alcohol is an expensive luxury; at the worst it is a terrible poison; in between it is a dangerous drug." / Mr. E. Rosslyn Mitchell, M.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • "All who are visionaries dream of a City Beautiful, but no man in his right senses would dream of putting a pub in it." / Mr. E. Rosslyn Mitchell, M.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • "In the light of modern science alcohol stands condemned as the greatest co-operating factor for the production of damaged lives." / Dr. Courtenay C. Weeks, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • "I have met plenty of men who have lost their situations because they drank : find me the man who has lost his because he didn't." / The Rev. Canon A. H. Sewell. M.A. (Bristol) ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • "It would be simply impossible for a man who drinks to be a scout : keep off the liquor from the very first ; make up your mind to have nothing to do with it." : from "Scouting for boys." / Lt. Gen. Sir Robert baden-Powell ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • A bad-tempered, spoilt horse which is just about
  • A wife, her physiognomy expressing good temper and humour according to Lavater. Drawing, c. 1789.