Tree of Temperance,1855,Temperance Movement,Evils of Alcohol,Goodwill,Charity

Title: Tree of temperance
Creator(s): Macbrair, Archibald, lithographer
Date Created/Published: [Cincinnati : published by A.D. Fillmore], c1855.
Summary: issued by A.D. Fillmore in 1855 extolling the social and moral benefits of temperance and condemning the evils of alcohol. In the center of the composition stands an erect, tall tree bearing fruit labeled with the names of virtues, including Industry, Philanthropy, Goodwill, Charity, and several others. At the foot of the tree, in the foreground, are groups of well-dressed children and adults. the children play and read as the elders converse and stroll about. Beyond are a schoolhouse (on the left) and a church (on the right). The sun rises in the distance, over a landscape with a railroad and village, and a river with a steamboat.
Notes:
Title from item.
Though unsigned, the print was probably printed by Archibald MacBrair like its companion piece 'Tree of Intemperance,' which bears this lithographer's imprint.
'Entered ... 1855 by A.D. Fillmore ... Ohio.'
The Library's impression was deposited for copyright on January 25, 1855.
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1855-2.
Subjects:
Temperance movement.
Lithographs--1850-1860.
Bookmark /2003689278/
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