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The Temperance Crusade: Four Hours in a Bar Room, Frank Beard, 1874

A barkeeper, hour by hour, from indifference to surrender.

What

A lithograph drawn by Frank Beard in 1874, held by the Library of Congress.

Why

The four panels are captioned cynical indifference, mockery and defiance, rage and despair, and unconditional surrender.

Notice

In the last hour he is emptying the bottles, and a paper on the counter reads PLEDGE.

“The temperance crusade of 1874, told from behind the bar.”

Format

The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.

Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 24x36" cleanly.

Size

$29.00

Provenance

The Lost — mark extinguished

Artist: Frank Beard
Country: United States
Format: Other
Piece published: The temperance crusade. Four hours in a bar room, 1874
Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2003681728

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Scan: Library of Congress; no known restrictions. Hosted on Wikimedia Commons.

Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (piece published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the piece’s own publication year, never a brand’s founding year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01. Published 1874, before the 1930 cutoff; maker Beard, Frank, 1842-1905, artist; Commons reads Public domain with {{LOC-image}} {{LOC-meta}} {{PD-US-expired-text}} {{PD-old-100-1923}} {{PD-old-100-expired}} {{PD-old-X-expired}} {{PD-old-text}} {{SDC-PD-old}}. Mark status dead is the registrar's reading of an old mark; no trademark search was run, so confirm before launch.

This brand was no longer in the market. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.