Creator(s)	Currier & Ives, lithographer.
Title	The progress of intemperance. Tempted. Persuaded. Hardened. Wrecked.
Link to library catalog	http://catalog.bostonathenaeum.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=498929
Date created	c1881.
Publishing details	New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 115 Nassau St.,
Physical Description	1 print on paper : lithograph, hand-colored ; image 21 x 35.2 cm., sheet 30.5 x 40.3 cm.
Wall Label	Although Boston’s population was politically diverse during the nineteenth century, the city was a welcoming hub for many social reform organizations, including dozens of active and often militant temperance societies. A number of factors contributed to a rise in alcohol abuse in the nineteenth century: increasing availability of liquor, impure water supplies, and changing social norms. In response to the “despotism of alcohol,” temperance societies initially advocated moderation, but their tone became shriller as the century progressed with many of their leaders calling for total abstinence and even prohibition. As in this Currier & Ives print of 1881, many temperance advocates believed that a single glass of wine could lead to alcoholic depravity. In the 1881 Annual Report of the Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society, readers were warned about the “wine-drinking saloon” where “thousands of our young men, and women, too, are ruined every year by the increasing use of... lighter wines in the fashionable social circle[s].”
Summary	A print with four images showing the effects of alcohol on one man. The first image, "Tempted" depicts a well-dressed gentleman refusing a glass from another man. The second image, "Persuaded" shows the same gentleman accepting a drink. The third image, "Hardened" shows the gentleman inebriated and pouring himself a drink at a bar. The fourth image, "Wrecked" shows the man barefoot, his clothes in tatters, with a large bottle at a bar.
Notes	Copyright statement under image: "Copyright 1881 by Currier & Ives, N.Y."
Local notes	Purchased with income from the W. H. C. Steiner Print Fund in honor of Victoria L. M. Paine and Michael J. Paine; July 2013; #2013.11 (no.1).
Reference	Gale Research Company, Currier & Ives A Catalogue Raisonné, #5378, repro. p. 529.
Subject	Alcoholism--United States--Pictorial works. Temperance--United States--Pictorial works.
Genre terms	Lithographs--United States--1880-1890.
Location/Call number	Prints and Photographs Dept. (Appointment required) A D97T 1881
Source	Intemperance_001.tif
Rights	Collection of the Boston Athenaeum. May not be reproduced or quoted without written permission. For more information, see http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/46