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Large, rectangular color poster advertising an appearance by Carry Nation, a temperance advocate who gained notoriety by attacking saloons. Her activities began in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, in 1899. A hatchet was her symbol because she often used the tool to smash saloon fixtures. In Nation's autobiography, The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation, she explained the genesis of this poster. While jailed in Topeka for smashing saloon fixtures in July 1901, Nation received a letter from James Furlong, manager of the Lyceum Theater in Rochester, New York. According to Nation, Furlong offered to bail her out of jail if she granted him some lecture dates. She agreed, was pardoned, and left almost immediately for a Chautauqua in Clarksburg, Ohio. Her lecture series continued across upstate New York.
Creator: Gillin Print Company
Date: between 1901 and 1902
Item Number: 215574
KSHS Identifier: 1928.41.1
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Activists
Collections - Museum
Community Life - Clubs and organizations - Reform/Advocacy - Kansas State Temperance Union
Community Life - Clubs and organizations - Reform/Advocacy - National Temperance Society
Curriculum - The Kansas Journey - Chapter 8: Reform Movements: "It Happens First in Kansas"
Date - 1900s - 1901
Date - 1900s - 1902
Home and Family - Daily life - Leisure - Alcohol consumption
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Advertising Medium - Poster
People - Notable Kansans - Nation, Carry Amelia,1846-1911
Places - Other States - New York
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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