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The supposed benefits of beer are illusory. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.
- Horsley, Victor, Sir, 1857-1916.
- Date
- [Reprinted 1930?]
- Reference
- 679992i
- Part of
- Why America went dry.
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- Online
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Licence
In copyright
Credit: The supposed benefits of beer are illusory. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920. Wellcome Collection. In copyright
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About this work
Description
Halftones showing: a steel worker carrying a heavy clamp (illustration from Collier's weekly); steel workers in a hot steel mill; a man, his wife and daughter relaxing at home without beer
Publication/Creation
Westerville, O[hio], U.S.A. : Published by The American Issue Publishing Company, [Reprinted 1930?]
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, printed in black and red ; sheet 91.7 x 61.3 cm.
Lettering
Beer is a bluffer. Beer doesn't make hard work easier. ... beer doesn't really cool one off. ... Beer doesn't rest one ... Beer contains alcohol, a habit-forming drug. Prepared and copyrighted 1920 by the Scientific Temperance Federation, Boston, Mass. Horsley: Alcohol and the human body
Creator/production credits
The Scientific Temperance Foundation was a successor to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, based in Boston, Mass.
Lettering note
Printed in black and red
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 679992i
Type/Technique
Languages
- English
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores