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Description
A post card showing the "City Liquor Agency" with "the Maine Question" printed on it. Maine was the first dry state in 1851 and despite several votes to abolish its anti-liquor laws, it was not until 1934 that Maine allowed the sale of intoxicating liquor.
About This Item
- Title: Temperance post card, ca. 1900
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
- Location: ME
- Media: Postcard
- Dimensions: 9 cm x 11 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 2093, Box 2/6
- Collection: Charles Burden Temperance collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- City Liquor Agency (Me.)--Postcards
- Postcards
- Prohibition
- Temperance
- Stores & shops--Maine
- Liquor stores--Maine
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