Carrie Nation

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A brief introduction to Carrie Nation and her origin story. While her antics were wildly entertaining and fodder for cartoonists around the country, she became a legitimate pioneer in the temperance movement and their greatest champion.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress. Abilene weekly reflector. (Abilene, Kan.), March 30, 1916. Accessed June 16, 2019. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84029386/1916-03-30/ed-1/seq-15/

One of dozens of cartoons depicting Nation with her hatchet and a poor man representing a busted up Witchita saloon.

Bartholomew, Charles Lewis ‘Bart’, 1869-1949. G. Washington To Date. 1901. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America. Accessed June 17, 2019. http://digitalcollections.hclib.org/cdm/ref/collection/Bart/id/4889
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Ph

Poem lamenting the arrival of Carrie Nation as a force of nature. There is “woe in wicked Kansas.” “Jointers” fortifying their establishments to protect against her rocks and hatchet.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. Phillipsburg herald. (Phillipsburg, Kan.), 21 Feb. 1901. Accessed June 16, 2019. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85029677/1901-02-21/ed-1/seq-8/

Ironic depiction of Carrie Nation as campaigning for office on personal liberty.
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. “Carrie Nation” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2019. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6bed984e-e239-9887-e040-e00a180604f1

Portrait of Carrie Nation
Digital Collection of the Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles Public Library. “Carrie Nation, a portrait” Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection. Accessed June 16, 2019. http://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13023

I chose an subject I was certain would yield search results, but this was a valuable exercise in research using various archives as well as determining citation information.

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