Call Number:

MC.801.11.007

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

.1 linear ft. (1 folder)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Temperance tracts (HC.MC 801.11.007) Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1870-1900 (inclusive)

Creator:

The National temperance society and publication house

Abstract:

An assortment of tracts from the National Temperance Society and Publication House in New York (two spearate series), and the "Gospel Temperance Tracts" series published by the Orphan's Printing Press of Leominster, England. Many of the pamphlets include a single wood-engraved illustration.

The National Temperance Society and Publication House was based in New York. Founded in 1865, it published thousands of pamphlets and broadside to advocate temperance, in addition to three monthly magazines. The organization also lobbied Congress on the issue of Prohibition and attempted to introduce temperance textbooks into schools.

Found in 1873 by Henry Stanley Newman, a Quaker philanthropist, the Leominster Orphan's Press was intended to provide training for the printing trade. Profits subsidized the local orphanage. Most of the press's output was religious tracts.

An assortment of tracts from the National Temperance Society and Publication House in New York (two spearate series), and the "Gospel Temperance Tracts" series published by the Orphan's Printing Press of Leominster, England. Many of the pamphlets include a single wood-engraved illustration.

Arranged by publisher and in numbered order of the tracts therin.