[Rarebooks] OFFER: COLD WATER ARMY PLEDGE.

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COLD WATER ARMY PLEDGE. / CERTIFICATE OF 
MEMBERSHIP. This certifies, that__________ having 
taken the above Pledge, is a Member of the 
Connecticutt Cold Water Army [Countersigned
 

Leader of the New Haven Division, 1842. 
Broadside 10" x 8" within a very complex 
decorative frame. A wood engraving 5 ½" x 3 ¾" of 
a group of children, boys first, carrying signs 
saying "Cold Water Army;"  "No Alcohol." The 
parade goes one into the distance and fades away 
very far away from the foreground. They are 
walking passed a confirmed drunkard, to whom a 
boy hands a form for signing declaring "Total 
Abstinence", with a quill pen. A skeleton stands 
near the drunkard with lightening and burning 
buildings behind both the skeleton, which is 
pointing onward, no doubt to a ghastly end. There 
is an emblematic American Eagle centred above 
which has temperance messages on either side. 
Although the engraving is not signed, there is 
not the slightest doubt that is the work of John 
Warner Barber, our only original emblem book 
maker.The MWA has my first copy. There also is a 
copy at Yale. However a production for similar 
use, for Massachusetts seems to have remained 
less rare. There is one at Brown, and at several 
other colleges. None of these make OCLC. Unnoted 
in Hamilton who collected Barber assiduously. 
This copy is as near mint as one could desire. $450.00

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