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Series II: Prohibition-related ephemera

Scope and Contents

Series II, Prohibition-related ephemera, includes speakeasy cards (advertising illicit bars that operated during the years of Prohibition), cartoons and caricatures, and other Prohibition and temperance related ephemera.

Disbound album of speakeasy cards and other prohibition-era ephemera

Box: 5, Folder: 1-2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Speakeasy advertisements and ephemera

Box: 5, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Speakeasy cards

Box: 5, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cartoons and caricatures

Box: 5, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Clippings - "Speakeasy" by Lois Sobel

Box: 5, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Clippings - Prohibition

Box: 5, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Clippings - Collecting speakeasy cards

Box: 5, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Temperance - cards and ephemera

Box: 5, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Miscellaneous ephemera

Box: 5, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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