The worsening effect of alcohol on the work of precision manufacturers: histogram. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.

Date:
Reprinted 1930
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679958i
Part of:
Why America went dry.
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Description

Left, halftone showing a precision manufacturer at the workbench; right, histogram of work done on abstinent and on drinking days

Publication/Creation

Westerville, O[hio], U.S.A. : Published by The American Issue Publishing Company, Reprinted 1930.

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in black and red ; sheet 91.7 x 61.3 cm.

Lettering

Alcohol impairs superior skill. Experience says: drink impairs all kinds of highly skilled hard work ... Scientific experiment proved. White column, work done on abstinent days. Black column, work done on drinking days. Prepared and copyrighted 1920 by the Scientific Temperance Federation, Boston, Mass. 1. Uno Totterman, Finska lakares allskapets handlingar, Oct. 1916. Printed in black and red

Creator/production credits

The Scientific Temperance Foundation was a successor to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, based in Boston, Mass.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 679958i

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