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The Drunkard's Progress: From the First Glass to the Grave is an 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier. It is a nine-step lebenstreppe on a stone arch depicting a man's journey through alcoholism . Through a series of vignettes it shows how a single drink starts an arc that ends in suicide.
The lithograph was drawn in January 1846 to support the growing anti-alcoholism sentiment which culminated in the United States with the passage of the 18th amendment to the United States Constitution, which outlawed the manufacture, transportation and sale of all alcoholic beverage within the United States.
The Drunkard's Progress: A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, January 1846.. In the United States, the temperance movement, which sought to curb the consumption of alcohol, had a large influence on American politics and American society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, culminating in the prohibition of alcohol, through the Eighteenth Amendment to the ...
English: A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement.Cleaned up slightly using the GIMP. Step 1: A glass with a friend. Step 2: A glass to keep the cold out.
The Drunkard's Progress, A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, January 1846.. The World League Against Alcoholism (WLAA) was organized by the Anti-Saloon League, whose goal became establishing prohibition not only in the United States but throughout the entire world.
Currier married Eliza West Farnsworth in 1840. [4] The couple had one child, Edward West Currier, the next year. [5] Eliza died in 1843. [4] In 1847, Currier married Lura Ormsbee.
The Drunkard's Progress: by Nathaniel Currier 1846, warns that moderate drinking leads, step-by-step, to total disaster.. Moralism is a philosophy that arose in the 19th century that concerns itself with imbuing society with a certain set of morals, usually traditional behaviour, but also "justice, freedom, and equality". [1]
The Drunkard's Progress: A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, January 1846. Joseph E. Anderson (1873−1937), Illinois state legislator and most recent Prohibition Party member of the Illinois General Assembly. [59] Frances Estill Beauchamp (1860–1923), Kentucky state chair; secretary, national committee