Son of Temperance: Purity, Fidelity, and Love by John H. Hall and Elisha Forbes
date: label: Date made
content: 1846
name: label: copyright holder
content: Cook, H. P.
label: artist
content: Forbes, E.
label: lithographer
content: Hall, John H.
notes: label: Description
content: This full length, hand-colored portrait print depicts a man wearing a badge on a ribbon. He is leaning on a pillar inscribed with a triangle labeled "PURITY","FIDELITY","LOVE", a temperance pledge and a list of founders. A swan fountain is depicted in the left background.
label: Description
content: This print was produced by John H. Hall and Elisha Forbes. A native of Cooperstown, New York, John H. Hall worked as an engraving apprentice in Albany in 1825. Then he spent a year in New York City with Dr. Alexander Anderson learning wood engraving. He returned to Albany after a year and trained Nathaniel Orr in engraving. He worked until 1848 in Albany as a partner at Hall, Packard, and Cushman (1838) and Hall & Cushman (1839). He also was active in Lancaster, Massachusetts and Boston. He was a founder of the Boston Bewick Company in 1834 and is better known as an engraver and for his illustrations in <i>Manual of Ornithology</i>. He moved to California in 1849 to join the Gold Rush and died there. Elisha Forbes was a wood engraver who worked in New Orleans in 1830 before moving to New York City and working there from 1833-1846.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Albany
topic: label: Subject
content: Drinking
label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1840-1849
label: Subject
content: Uniforms, fraternal
label: Subject
content: Parks, public
label: Subject
content: Fraternal Associations
label: Subject
content: Temperance
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Family & Social Life
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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.60.2953
label: catalog number
content: 60.2953
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 18 in x 12 1/2 in; 45.72 cm x 31.75 cm