Autograph, Carrie Nation

 
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Autograph, Carrie Nation
Autograph, Carrie Nation
Autograph, Carrie Nation
Autograph, Carrie Nation

Autograph, Carrie Nation

Object number2017.016.07
DateSeptember 8, 1910
Associated LocationHatchet Hall, Eureka Springs, Arkansas
MediumPaper, Pencil
Dimensions7 3/8 × 4 5/8 in. (18.7 × 11.7 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionA piece of paper signed by Carrie A. Nation on September 8, 1910. The paper contains her name, the date, and the location of her home, Hatchet Hall, in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

    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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