Ten Nights in a Bar Room Handbill: Museum Object and Cultural History
Ten Nights in a Bar Room Handbill: Object Name: Playbill. Physical Description: paper (overall material). Physical Description: ink (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
Handbill from Ten Nights in a Bar Room, which was adapted for the stage from the 1854 novel of the same name written by Timothy Shay Arthur. The book advocated for temperance and the Cult of Domesticity and was the first work to openly call for prohibition.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Object Name: Playbill
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 14 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in; 36.83 cm x 26.67 cm
- general subject association: Theater
- Subject: Temperance
- ID Number: 1981.0859.02
- accession number: 1981.0859
- catalog number: 1981.0859.02
- Credit Line: Gift of Donald T. McDaniel
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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