A saloon wrecked by Carry Nation, Enterprise, Kansas
Date: 1901
Interior of a saloon in Enterprise, Kansas, destroyed by Carry Nation and her followers. The wooden cases are labeled Exquisite Bottling Works, Junction City, Kansas.

A saloon wrecked by Carry Nation, Enterprise, Kansas
Date: Jan. 23, 1901
Interior view of a saloon wrecked by Carry Nation and her followers, Enterprise, Kansas.

Ax
Date: between 1900 and 1904
Iron and oak felling ax marked along one side: "This axe used by Blanche Boise in smashing the glass cover to picture of Custer's Last Fight." Topeka resident Blanch Boise was a follower of the nationally recognized temperance advocate Carry Nation. Boise was known for violent acts directed at entities associated with the illegal consumption of alcohol. On January 9, 1904, Boise entered the Kansas State Historical Society rooms in the Kansas Statehouse and attacked a framed Anheuser-Busch advertisement depicting a print of Cassilly Adam's famous painting, "Custer's Last Fight," found on Kansas Memory with the Item Number of 305138. Boise was arrested and incarcerated that night. Working in conjunction with Carry Nation, Boise later continued her temperance work by smashing the glass fronts of four Topeka saloons and two drugstores.

Carey Hotel Bar, Wichita, Kansas
Date: December 27, 1900
A photograph showing the Carey Hotel Bar in Wichita, Kansas after Carry Nation threw rocks to break the mirror during a temperance protest.

Carry Amelia Nation
Date: Between 1890 and 1910
An informal portrait of temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, holding an ice cream cone before an unidentified man.

Carry Amelia Nation
Creator: Nichols and Davidson
Date: 1901
Portrait of Carry A. Nation holding a hatchet and Bible.

Carry Amelia Nation
Creator: Nation, Carry Amelia Moore, 1846-1911
Date: Around 1900
Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, of Medicine Lodge, Kansas on the steps of the Temperance Hotel in London, England during a speaking tour of England.

Carry Amelia Nation
Creator: Nation, Carry Amelia Moore, 1846-1911
Date: Around 1900
A portrait of temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, of Medicine Lodge, Kansas reading a bible.

Carry Amelia Nation
Creator: Nation, Carry Amelia Moore, 1846-1911
Date: Around 1900
A view of temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, of Medicine Lodge, Kansas on an elevated lecture platform addressing a large crowd of people in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Carry Amelia Nation
Date: Between 1890 and 1910
A view of temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, talking to two unidentified men on a city street.

Carry Amelia Nation
Creator: Liegel Cooper
Date: Between 1900 and 1911
Carry Amelia Nation carrying a hatchet and Bible.

Carry Amelia Nation
Date: 1908
An informal portrait of temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, wearing a bonnet and coat.

Carry Amelia Nation
Date: Between 1890 and 1910
An informal portrait of temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, talking to an unidentified man and woman on a ship's deck.

Carry Amelia Nation
Creator: London News Agency
Date: 1909
A photograph showing Carrie Nation standing on a street with her hatchet.

Carry Amelia Nation
Creator: Harden, Alden Wakefield, 1838-1927
Date: Between 1904 and 1905
A portrait of temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, shown with her bible kneeling in prayer by a chair in a jail cell at an unknown location.

Carry Amelia Nation
Creator: Roger, I
Date: Between 1900 and 1911
A studio portrait of temperance leader, Carry Amelia Nation, shown seated with book resting on her lap.

Carry Amelia Nation
Date: Between 1890 and 1910
An informal portrait of temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, shown standing outside a cave, possibly in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and pouring a liquid into a cup.

Carry Amelia Nation
Date: 1909
A black and white photograph of Carry Nation kneeling next to a chair and reading a book.

Carry Amelia Nation
Date: Between 1900 and 1911
A portrait of temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, standing in front of Hatchet Hall, her home at 35 Steele Street in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Carry Amelia Nation
Date: Between 1900 and 1911
A signed black and white portrait of Carry Nation seated and holding a book.

Carry Amelia Nation
Creator: Harden, Alden Wakefield, 1838-1927
Date: Between 1904 and 1905
A portrait of temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, shown with her bible kneeling in prayer by a chair in a jail cell at an unknown location.

Carry Amelia Nation
Date: Between 1865 and 1875
A portrait of temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, as a young woman.

Carry Amelia Nation
Creator: Banks, R.
Date: 1901
A postcard showing Carry Nation with a group at Rochester, New York. The young woman standing to the right of Carry Nation is Carrie Moore.

Carry Amelia Nation
Creator: Nation, Carry Amelia Moore, 1846-1911
Date: Around 1900
An informal portrait of temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, of Medicine Lodge, Kansas reading from the Bible to three ladies.

Carry Amelia Nation
Date: Between 1890 and 1910
A portrait of temperance leader Carry Amelia Nation, 1846-1911, shown sitting with her niece, Callie Bell Moore Blum, 1886-1977.