The Independent Opportunities are Endless

A WWI poster signaling the women, who are not participating in the navy, to fulfill their patriotic duty by continuing to work in the home and working in the industries, filling in the empty slots from the soldiers. 

WWI poster used in 1918. To view more WWI propaganda, check out  http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/05/02/world-war-i-poster-woman-is-true-to-her-task/

The Independent Woman

In WWI, women were represented as independent and more powerful, working in the military.

This is one of the many propaganda posters used in the war. To view more check out http://www.loc.gov/search/?q=women+world+war+1&fa=original-format%3Aphoto%2C+print%2C+drawing 

Even During War...

Even during the war when times were tough, men were able to provide sustenance for their families. However, now that they are spending it on alcohol, women are pushing for the Prohibition in order to care for their children. 

This flier was created by the Anti-Saloon League during the years of 1893 and 1919. To view their whole collection of Prohibition flyers, http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon/pmaterial/fliers/

A Leader During the Prohibition

Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard:

“Woman's genius for details, and her patient steadfastness in following the enemies of those she loves "through every lane of life," have led her to antagonize the alcohol habit and the liquor traffic just where they are, wherever that may be.”

This is a quote taken from Willard's entire speech that she addressed in the Second Biennial Convention of the World's WCTU and the Twentieth Annual Convention of the National WCTU. To read the entire "Do-Everything Policy," click here: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/naw:@field(DOCID+@lit(rbnawsan8352div1)).

All Nations Welcome But Carrie Nation

Carrie Amelia Nation:

“I have given space in this book to one of the most scientific articles, showing how dangerous alcohol is to the human system. Any physician that will prescribe whiskey or alcohol as a medicine is either a fool or a knave. A fool because he does not understand his business, for even saying that alcohol does arouse the action of the heart, there are medicines that will do that and will not produce the fatal results of alcoholism, which is the worst of all diseases. He is a knave because his practice is a matter of getting a case, and a fee at the same time, like a machine agent who breaks the machine to get the job of mending it. Alcohol destroys the normal condition of all the functions of the body. The stomach is thrown out of fix, and the patient goes to the doctor for a stomach pill, the heart, liver, kidneys, and in fact the whole body is in a deranged condition, and the doctor has a perpetual patient. I sincerely believe this to be the reason why many physicians prescribe it.”


A quote from Carrie Nation's autobiography The Use and Need of the Life of Carrie A. Nation, in Chapter 10. If you want to check out the entire book online, http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/hst/biography/TheUseandNeedoftheLifeofCarrieANation/chap10.html

The Great Frances Willard

The cover title to the speech Frances Willard presented during a convention discussing the importance of the WCTU and the women's right campaign.

This is a reprint of the speech found in the "Selections from the National Women American Women Suffrage Association Collection: 1848-1921" from Carrie Chapman. If you want to see the rest of the speech, it may be seen here http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?nawbib:1:./temp/~ammem_HRnd::.

The Women's Mission Statement

"The greatest result of the Crusade was the awakening of the women of the country to a knowledge of the enormity of the liquor truffle and to a consciousness of their own ability to work for its overthrow."

A quote taken from the book A Brief History of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which was written in 1907. If you want to read the entire book online, https://archive.org/stream/briefhistoryofwo00stev#page/n0/mode/2up