The Down Hill Road: temperance print of drinking scenes – Historic Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of The Down Hill Road: temperance print of drinking scenes. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Down Hill Road: temperance print of drinking scenes
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Its title sets the sequence in motion: "The Down Hill Road" casts a drinker's life as a slope, with each scene pushing him further from respectability toward ruin. Temperance reformers in the nineteenth century relied on cheap, widely circulated pictures like this to reach working families and readers who might never pick up a tract. The taverns, bottles, and abandoned households show how the print uses everyday scenes to deliver a sermon, and the step-by-step structure reflects the moralizing picture series popular at the time.
| Original scan | 6,249 × 7,994 px · prints to 21 × 27 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 03437u |
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