Bottle, Carry Nation

 
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Carry Nation glass bottle
Bottle, Carry Nation
Carry Nation glass bottle
Carry Nation glass bottle

Bottle, Carry Nation

Object number1997.022.13
Dateca 1900-1910
Mediumglass
DimensionsOverall: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionDepicts Carry A. Nation. Clear glass shows woman holding purse in left hand and crowbar in right, dressed in full skirt with long sleeves, bowtie, hat. At base words "Patent Applied For" appear along edge. Number 3,7,10 also listed. E 561 is on ouside at base.

    Carry A. Nation (1846-1911) was an American radical member of the Women’s Temperance Union, which opposed alcohol just before the Prohibition. Believing her name to be an indication of divine guidance, Carry would become famous for her methods in eliminating alcohol by destroying saloons and its stock with a hatchet. Between 1900 and 1910, she would be arrested 30 times for “hatchetations,” as she would coin them. Nation paid her jail fines with money collected from giving lectures and selling souvenir hatchets. In 1908, she moved to Eureka Springs, AR, where her house became known as “Hatchet Hall.”
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