Alcoholism ephemera. Box 1.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes many temperance tracts and leaflets advertising 'residential homes for inebriates' in which they can 'dry out' including Littleover Towers (for men) and Mabie House (for women) in Littleover near Derby, the Father Murphy institute for Inebriates in Norfolk Square, London, British Women's Total Abstinance Union, National British Women's Temperance Association, Little White Ribboners, World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Church of England Temperance Society and its juvenile branch (1906, 1920, 1923), Band of Hope (motto for 1904), 'Lebt ohne Alkohol' (poster stamp, ca.1910), the Lad's Total Abstinence and Provident Guild (Given-Wilson Institute, Plaistow, 1914), Kent Band of Hope and Temperance Federation certificate of merit (1939), 'The eloquence of grief - the ravages of rum' (Peter Drummond, Stirling tracts : no 162, Ocorber 1854).