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Anti-prohibition poster

This pro-continuance poster, from the 1920s, refers to a claim by two British MPs that prohibition in the United States had not been a success.

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  • Temperance cartoon
    Temperance movement

Keywords

alcohol
prohibition
poster
Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: Eph-D-ALCOHOL-Continuance-1920s-03
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image

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'Anti-prohibition poster', URL: https://nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/anti-prohibition-poster, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 1-Jul-2014

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