Circa 1931-1932 set of three different paper stock Prohibition posters printed by Signal Press out of Evanston, Illinois. Signal Press is the publishing house of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) which was founded in 1873 and still exists to this day. Frances Willard, educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist, was elected the WCTU's second president in 1879. She grew the WTCU to be the largest organization of women in the world by 1890. She remained president until her death in 1898.
1. "Prohibition Has Reduced Drinking Two Thirds" with a bar graph showing the difference between the Wet Years and Dry Years. Report of the Department of Justice. Estimated by Measure of Raw Materials Used 1931.
2. "Personal Liberty Ends Where Public Safety Begins - A Drink May Cost A Life."
3."Prohibition A Life Saver - Has Reduced Deaths From Alcoholism Fifty Per Cent" with a bar graph showing the difference between the Wet Years and the Dry Years per 100,000 population. From Data by U.S. Census Bureau.
NOTE: Posters will be rolled and mailed in a sturdy tube.
- * CONDITION: Poster 1 is Good+ to Very Good- with some staining along the top edge and small areas of loss at the upper left and right edges as shown. Poster 2 is Very Good++. Poster 3 is Fair+ to Good- with some loss at the lower left edge and corner area and lower right edge as shown. Sorry for the use of antique scale weights to hold down the corners of the posters.
- * SIZE: Each poster measures approximately 2 x 3 feet.
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