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Grand division of the Sons of Temperance Pennsylvania. [membership certificate] [graphic].
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Contributor
Chubbuck, Thomas, d. 1888, printer.
Title
Grand division of the Sons of Temperance Pennsylvania. [membership certificate] [graphic].
Publisher
Springfield, Mass.: Thos. Chubbuck's Lith
Date
[ca. 1860]
Physical Description
1 print : lithograph, tinted with one stone and hand-colored; 61 x 50 (24 x 19.5 in.)
Description
Membership certificate containing a border comprised of vignettes, filigree, and other pictorial details. Vignettes depict "Love for your members in sickness & in health" showing a sick bed scene; "Purity of Heart & Life" showing an allegorical scene with a woman dressed in white standing in the forest near a lake and fountain; "Fidelity to your solemn obligations" portraying a scene of a member taking his oath in a parlor; and a scene of a man sitting in bed and reading. Other pictorial details include vinery, forestry, and rock formations. Also contains the seals of the "Grand Division State of Pennsylvania" and the "National Division, S of T Organized June 14, 1844." in the lower corners. Sons of Temperance, established in New York in 1842, was a fraternal and benevolent organization that espoused total abstinence.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 94
American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithff Chub Gran
Subject
Sons of Temperance of North America.
Genre
Lithographs Tinted -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Membership certificates -- 1850-1860.
Location
American Antiquarian Society | AAS Graphic Arts Lithff Chub Gran
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