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History Day Guide -- Temperance Movement
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Manuscripts: Journals, letters, ledgers and diaries.

MSS 18 Joshua Swayne Papers, 1841-1857
Letters Swayne received from family and friends while a medical student in Columbus relating to practicing medicine and to temperance societies in Spring Valley, essays on contemporary social issues
MSS 118 Free Will Baptist Records, 1819-1920
Constitution, records, minutes of Ohio River Yearly Meetings, Meigs Quarterly Meetings, and Gallia Quarterly Meetings of the Free Will Baptists; subjects include slavery, temperance, and Sabbath schools
MSS 142 Janney Family Papers, 1796-1905
Correspondence of John J. and Rebecca (Smith) Janney, on Whig, Republican, and Union parties, temperance, women's suffrage, prison reform, and banking; of Francis (Janney) Derby, pertaining to her medical studies and practice
MSS 270 Viola D. Romans Papers, 1804-1946
Papers of Romans, a state legislator of Columbus: addresses, radio broadcasts, programs, pamphlets and newspaper clippings and scattered correspondence, relating to the Women's Christian Temperance Union, women's suffrage and the Women's Republican Club of Ohio
MSS 474 Delia Thompson Papers, 1884-1887
Papers of a Columbus Women's Christian Temperance Union missionary and founder of the Sunday school that became the Union Grove Baptist Church of Columbus
MSS 550Ernest Hurst Cherrington Papers, 1927-1957
Correspondence, manuscripts of articles, notebooks, speeches and financial records relating to Cherrington's work with the national temperance movement
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Audiovisuals: Photographs, video and film footage, and audio recordings.

SC 1102 Prohibition and Whiskey Crusade, 1873 - [193-]
Views of prohibition and the whiskey crusade, including sketches of crusading women of New Vienna, Ohio, "Van Pelt's Surrender" and picket scenes in Mount Vernon
SC 1337 Temperance, 1874
Photographs, illustrations and postcards documenting the Temperance Crusade of 1873-1874, which began in Hillsboro, Ohio
SC 1493 Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1873 - 1912
Photographs documenting members and activities of the W.C.T.U. including the Temperance Crusade of 1873-1874, which began in Hillsboro, Ohio and postcards with temperance messages
SC 3875 Eliza Jane Trimble "Mother" Thompson, c. 1900s
Photographs of Thompson, national and local leader of the Temperance movement.
SC 5354 Temperance (Whiskey Crusade), 1873-1874
Stereographs of temperance crusaders in Mt. Vernon, Ohio by Fred S. Crowell
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Published Materials: Books, periodicals, and pamphlets.

The Ohio Historical Society Temperance Collection contains hundreds of books and pamphlets related to the temperance cause including the publications of major temperance organizations, such at the Anti-Saloon League and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Please search the Archives/Library collections in the Online Collection Catalog under the general search term "temperance" or ask at the Archives/Library's reference desk for assistance. Go to top


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