The Drunkard's Progress – Historic Print
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This historic image of The Drunkard's Progress brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Drunkard's Progress
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Its title, *The Drunkard's Progress*, announces a cautionary story told in stages, a format that was popular in American temperance imagery of the nineteenth century. Prints like this framed heavy drinking as a slow decline, with each scene marking a step toward ruin, and they were meant to be read as moral lessons as much as pictures. Temperance societies, churches and reform publishers circulated such images widely, which is why the genre appears so often in print collections. When looking at this example, pay attention to how the sequence or arrangement of scenes builds the warning, since that structure was the point of the design.
| Original scan | 5,868 × 7,522 px · prints to 20 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 32720uTheDrunkardsProgress |
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