Temperance, but No Maine-Law by Augustus Fay
date: label: Date made
content: 1854
name: label: maker
content: Fay, Augustus
notes: label: Description
content: Black and white print of the lavishly decorated “Gem Saloon,” known for containing the city's largest mirror. The top of the mirror features a large eagle. The “Gem Saloon” was located in a hotel on the corner of Broadway and Anthony (now Worth Street) in New York City. Mayor Fernando Wood and eleven male politicians and businessmen are depicted drinking and conversing along with two bartenders and a dog. The title refers to the debate that was raging over the regulation of alcohol and a temperance movement that was launched in 1850 by the mayor of Portland, Maine in 1850. The Maine state bill forbid all alcoholic purchases except for "medicinal, mechanical or manufacturing purposes", resulting in an increase of alcoholic “quackery” medicines. Several other cities and states followed Maine’s example in legislation. In New York liquor law was passed in 1854 but vetoed by Governor Horatio Seymour. Then in 1855, with a new administration, the "Maine Law" was passed in New York, though it was never strictly enforced.
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content: Augustus Fay was an engraver, lithographer and illustrator born in New York in 1824. He was active as an engraver in New York City 1848-1860, and as a lithographer in Hoboken, New Jersey and in New York in the 1850s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Hoboken
label: depicted
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Clocks
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content: Drinking
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content: Eating
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content: Chronology: 1850-1859
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content: Lighting
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content: Patriotism and Patriotic Symbols
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content: Birds
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content: Adornment
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content: Reform Movements
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content: State Government
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content: Furnishings
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content: Architecture, Commercial Buildings
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content: Eagles
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content: Dogs
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Temperance Movement
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.3000
label: catalog number
content: 60.3000
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 18 7/8 in x 25 1/8 in; 47.9425 cm x 63.8175 cm