Anti-prohibition card

Titles: Anti-prohibition card (Supplied title)

Description: Postcard size anti-prohibition card used in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The card reads: "It's a long way to Prohibition, / It's the wrong way to go. / It's a sure way to bring Perdition / To the greatest State I know. / Let's all stick together, / Let this be our cry--- / 'It's a long, long way to Prohibition / And we'll not go dry.'"

Dates

• Not later than 1976 (Acquired by Minnesota Historical Society in June 1976.) (Discovery)
• Not later than 1919 (Prohibition was ratified in the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on January 16, 1919; repeal was passed in the Twenty-first Amendment on December 5, 1933.) (Use)
• Approximately 1840 - Approximately 1929 (Prohibition was a major reform movement in the United States from the 1840s through the 1920s.) (Content)

Creation

• owned/used by: Shorba, George

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 1976.62.2

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 2 3/4 inches height
• 4 3/8 inches width

Subjects

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