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Title: Interview with Walter Aurand, 1981 May 14 [audio]
Date(s): 1981-05-14
Contributor(s): Aurand, Walter George, 1891-1983 (interviewee), Tremaine, Dorothy (interviewer)
Description: Influenced by his high school teacher and educated in chemistry at the University of Delaware, Walter describes life in Wilmington during the early twentieth century. His interview details a work atmosphere at DuPont, a powder explosion that killed three women, testing the bullets in New Castle, and safety in the workplace.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_102313_aurand
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Illicit Liquor and Distilling Apparatus Seized by States, Average Fiscal Years 1925, 1926, 1927
Date(s): 1928, 1928?
Contributor(s): Raskob, John J. (John Jakob), 1879-1950 (former owner)
Description: Chart illustrating liquor apparatuses confiscated by the government.
Collection ID: John J. Raskob papers (Accession 0473)
Hagley ID: m473_20100623_057
Collection: John J. Raskob papers

Title: Prohibition Probes stationery
Date(s): 1931, 1931~
Creator: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Description: Text on card: 'JACK AND JILL WENT UP THE HILL TO FETCH A PAIL OF WATER, AN AGENT SHOT THEM IN THE BACK AND DRYS APPLAUD THE SLAUGHTER.'
Collection ID: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery (Accession 2005.204)
Hagley ID: 2005204_006
Collection: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery

Title: The Eighteenth Amendment: A Message to Young People
Date(s): 1929
Contributor(s): United States. Bureau of Prohibition (originator), Raskob, John J. (John Jakob), 1879-1950 (former owner)
Description: Tract directed at American youth to encourage them to follow laws.
Collection ID: John J. Raskob papers (Accession 0473)
Hagley ID: m473_20100623_065
Collection: John J. Raskob papers

Title: Prohibition Probes postcard
Date(s): 1931, 1931~
Creator: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Description: Text on card: 'The prohibition fallacy is now confined to the United States, Finland and Prince Edward Islands.'
Collection ID: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery (Accession 2005.204)
Hagley ID: 2005204_034
Collection: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery

Title: Prohibition Probes stationery
Date(s): 1931, 1931~
Creator: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Description: Text on card: 'The drys object to prohibition agents who have wet sympathies but accept convicts provided they will shoot to kill'
Collection ID: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery (Accession 2005.204)
Hagley ID: 2005204_007
Collection: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery

Title: Prohibition Probes stationery:
Date(s): 1931, 1931~
Creator: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Description: Text on card: "Christ rebuked the Pharisees and the bigots of His day, saying 'For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a wine bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!' St. Luke VII: 33, 34"
Collection ID: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery (Accession 2005.204)
Hagley ID: 2005204_012
Collection: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery

Title: Prohibition Probes postcard
Date(s): 1931, 1931~
Creator: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Description: Text on card: 'You can throw this card in the waste basket but you can't do that with my vote.'
Collection ID: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery (Accession 2005.204)
Hagley ID: 2005204_048
Collection: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery

Title: Prohibition Probes postcard:
Date(s): 1931, 1931~
Creator: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Description: Text on card: "Congressman James M. Beck says: 'The Republican party cannot longer afford to sell its soul to the fanatical drys.' Republican leaders are responsible. Will they wake up before the party is smashed?"
Collection ID: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery (Accession 2005.204)
Hagley ID: 2005204_050
Collection: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery

Title: Sen. W.G. McAdoo to John J. Raskob
Date(s): 1931-03-02
Contributor(s): Raskob, John J. (John Jakob), 1879-1950 (correspondent), McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs), 1863-1941 (correspondent)
Description: Telegram to Raskob as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee warning that the committee should refrain from committing the party to an anti-Prohibition stance. McAdoo states that only Democratic National Conventions can declare party policies.
Collection ID: John J. Raskob papers (Accession 0473)
Hagley ID: raskob-0602-3
Collection: John J. Raskob papers

Title: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment Insignia Button
Date(s): 1920/1927, 1920, 1927
Contributor(s): Association Against the Prohibition Amendment (originator), Raskob, John J. (John Jakob), 1879-1950 (former owner)
Description: Membership pin of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Collection ID: John J. Raskob papers (Accession 0473)
Hagley ID: m473_20100623_021
Collection: John J. Raskob papers

Title: Radio Address by John J. Raskob, 1930-10-27
Date(s): 1930-10-27
Contributor(s): Raskob, John J. (John Jakob), 1879-1950 (author)
Description: Transcript of speech given at NBC studios in New York City.
Collection ID: John J. Raskob papers (Accession 0473)
Hagley ID: m473_20100707_062
Collection: John J. Raskob papers

Title: Prohibition Probes postcard
Date(s): 1931, 1931~
Creator: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Description: Text on card: 'Prohibition has made drunkenness a joke - not a sin.'
Collection ID: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery (Accession 2005.204)
Hagley ID: 2005204_028
Collection: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery

Title: Hugh Harley to John J. Raskob, 1937-11-17
Date(s): 1937-11-17
Contributor(s): United Brewers Industrial Foundation (originator), Raskob, John J. (John Jakob), 1879-1950 (correspondent)
Description: Letter, with Brewers' Code of Practice attached.
Collection ID: John J. Raskob papers (Accession 0473)
Hagley ID: m473_20100812_010
Collection: John J. Raskob papers

Title: Prohibition Probes postcard
Date(s): 1931, 1931~
Creator: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Description: Text on card: 'Prohibition, like charity, begins at home. You can never settle it in Washington.'
Collection ID: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery (Accession 2005.204)
Hagley ID: 2005204_016
Collection: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery

Title: Prohibition Probes postcard
Date(s): 1931, 1931~
Creator: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Description: Text on card: 'Vote for Temperance based on conscience and morality. The 18th Amendment has brought us violence, corruption and revolt against laws which free men will never obey.'
Collection ID: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery (Accession 2005.204)
Hagley ID: 2005204_037
Collection: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery

Title: Prohibition Probes stationery:
Date(s): 1931, 1931~
Creator: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Description: Text on card: "Prohibition is Class Legislation 'Is an employer entitled to the respect of his employees if he approves restrictions upon their liberties 'for their good' but insists upon his own freedom of action? He is a man demanding a favored class; he is no American.' PIERRE S. DU PONT"
Collection ID: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery (Accession 2005.204)
Hagley ID: 2005204_002
Collection: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery

Title: Prohibition Probes postcard:
Date(s): 1931, 1931~
Creator: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Description: Text on card: "'National prohibition is non-enforceable.' TAFT"
Collection ID: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery (Accession 2005.204)
Hagley ID: 2005204_049
Collection: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery

Title: Interview with Agnes Quinn [audio]
Date(s): 1968-05-28
Contributor(s): Quinn, Agnes (interviewee)
Description: Quinn describes prohibition in Wilmington, shopping and making textiles, her relationship with her grandmother, the layout of the neighborhood, social activities at Breck's Mill, floods along the Brandywine, and running her tavern. She also describes Christmas traditions along the Brandywine, including attending church at dawn at St. Joseph's on the Brandywine, the decoration of the tree, sledding, and gifts received.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_102413_quinn
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Al Smith-Raskob Idea of Happiness, political cartoon
Date(s): 1935, 1935~
Contributor(s): Raskob, John J. (John Jakob), 1879-1950 (former owner), Democratic Party (U.S.) (associated name), Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944 Norris, George W. (George William), 1861-1944 (associated name)
Description: Political cartoon unfavorably linking Senator Norris to Al Smith and John J. Raskob.
Collection ID: John J. Raskob papers (Accession 0473)
Hagley ID: m473_20100707_007
Collection: John J. Raskob papers

Title: Guide to the Scholarly Resources microfilm edition of Papers of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment and the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform
Date(s): 1982
Contributor(s): Hagley Museum and Library (originator)
Description: The papers filmed represent a selection from Pierre S. du Pont's AAPA File 1023 of forty-five boxes, of which twenty-nine comprise the AAPA itself and sixteen the WONPR, photographed in the order in which they were inventoried by the staff of the Eleutherian Mills Historical Library.
Collection ID: Ref CD3159.G8 E417
Hagley ID: I2011419_guide
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title: Prohibition Probes stationery
Date(s): 1931, 1931~
Creator: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Description: Text on card: 'Christ inaugurated His miracles by giving the people wine for water at the marriage of Cana. If Christ should appear today at a marriage feast and turn water into wine would Prohibitionists approve or revile Him as did the Pharisees of old? '
Collection ID: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery (Accession 2005.204)
Hagley ID: 2005204_014
Collection: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery

Title: Executive Committee of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment to John J. Raskob, 1928-02-20
Date(s): 1928-02-20
Contributor(s): Association Against the Prohibition Amendment (correspondent), Raskob, John J. (John Jakob), 1879-1950 (correspondent)
Description: Letter inviting Raskob to serve as a member of the Executive Committee of the AAPA.
Collection ID: John J. Raskob papers (Accession 0473)
Hagley ID: m473_20100623_049
Collection: John J. Raskob papers

Title: Prohibition Probes postcard:
Date(s): 1931, 1931~
Creator: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Description: Text on card: "'600% rise in alcoholism death rate from 1920 to 1929.' Metropolitan Life Insurance Company"
Collection ID: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery (Accession 2005.204)
Hagley ID: 2005204_052
Collection: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery

Title: Prohibition Probes stationery
Date(s): 1931, 1931~
Creator: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Description: Text on card: 'Automobile kill thousands yearly. They aid in the commission of robbery, theft and murders. They make possible the rule of bootleggers. They corrupt youth and popularize petting parties, promote extravagance. The Constitution should prohibit them!'
Collection ID: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery (Accession 2005.204)
Hagley ID: 2005204_015
Collection: Association Against the Prohibition Amendment postcards and stationery

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