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Alcohol - Law and legislation

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Ethanol

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Images from the collections

Images about Alcohol - Law and legislation

3 images from works
  • A procession of publicans and a beggar following the coffin of Madam Geneva; attacking the Act preventing distillers from retailing or selling gin to unlicensed premises. Engraving, 1751.
  • A triumphant American slave woman representing quassia (ingredient in acoholic drinks) is carried aloft by two brewers; representing the outcry against a tax on private brewing (?). Etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • Policemen apprehend a pickpocket taking a license from a publican; representing the value to the government of publicans' licenses. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1890, after himself.

Works from the collections

13 works

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    An appeal to the people for the suppression of the liquor traffic : a prize essay / by Rev. H.D. Kitchel.

    Kitchel, Henry Denison, 1812-1895. | Date: 1848
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    Regulating tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy foods : the legal issues / edited by Tania Voon, Andrew D Mitchell and Jonathan Liberman.

    | Date: 2014
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    Jews and booze : becoming American in the age of prohibition / Marni Davis.

    Davis, Marni. | Date: [2012], ©2012
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    Alcohol : science, policy and public health / edited by Peter Boyle [and others].

    | Date: 2013
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    The drunken warrant : From the office at Copper-nose-hall, near the Red-face in Small-brain-street.

    | Date: [1700?]
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Related topics

Alcohol Drinking
Alcoholic beverage industry
Alcoholism
Processions
Temperance
Hotels
Bars (Drinking establishments)
Taverns (Inns)

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