Jun 01, 2023 - Sale 2639

Sale 2639 - Lot 146

Unsold
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Collection of Ephemera.

Including: autograph letter signed by Isabel Wing Lake, February 10, 1897, on Purity Department of the WCTU letterhead, mentioning that "the colored girl came this am and I shall have done all I can for her"; two Temperance Almanacs published by the WCTU, a fan from 1898 with a portrait of Frances E. Willard; a late 19th century cabinet card of members of the WCTU posing in front of their meeting place; a press photo of WCTU members protesting at a bar; four issues of journal New York Temperance Work from the 1940s and '50s; nine issues of The Union Signal from 1913 and 1914; and other material.