Ledger, Carry Nation

 
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Ledger, Carry Nation
Carry Nation Ledger
Carry Nation Ledger

Ledger, Carry Nation

Object number1997.022.12
Date1911
Mediumpaper and ink
DimensionsOverall: 8 x 12 1/2 in. (20.3 x 31.8 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionS.E. Ledger kept by Hugo Lund, executor of the estate of Carry Nation. Has tan cover with geometric design on front and back. Upper and lower right corners have burgundy reinforcements. Inside sheet has "July 21st 1911" written in pencil at top. Ledger has 100 pages of blue lined sheets. Tabs on far right contain letters of the alphabet. The ledger lists the accounts of the estate of Carry A. Nation in Eureka Springs. All entries made in pencil.

    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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