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Lot 215: American Prohibition Era Posters

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD
Lot 215: American Prohibition Era Posters
<b>ANONYMOUS</b> <p> <b>215. Three Prohibition Era Posters.</b> ca. 1933.
Each: 18 1/2 x 33 1/8 in./42 x 56.3 cm
Signal Press, Evanston, Illinois
Cond B-/Restored tears, largely in top text area.
Springing from the temperance movements of the 19th-century, prohibition became a major political hot topic in turn-of-the-century America. After World War I, due in large part to mounting Puritanism and conservative policies, national prohibition became the law–the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution forbidding the manufacture, sale, import, or export of intoxicating liquors. However, enforcing the new law proved to be very difficult. Smuggling and bootlegging on a massive scale could not be prevented, and the illicit manufacture of liquor sprang up with such rapidity that authorities were unable to suppress it. There followed a period of unparalleled illegal drinking–often of inferior and dangerous beverages–and lawbreaking. In 1933 the Twenty-first Amendment, repealing prohibition, was ratified. These three posters explore the impending repealment issue from every angle–from the dangers of "lawless liquor traffic” to diminished parental capacity to the irreversible effects of irresponsible consumption–with a solemn evenhandedness one might not expect on such an impassioned subject.
<b>Est: $1,000-$1,200.</b> (3)
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