{"value"=>"<p>Approximately half of the collection consists of Prohibition Party material, and the bulk of this was produced by the New York County Committee. Some material was produced by the Prohibition Committees of Kings (Brooklyn) and Westchester counties, the New York State committee, and the national Prohibition Party. One item, a blank membership card of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Prohibition Party, City and County of New York, is included. One folder contains a few items of printed material, 1891, 1892, and n. d., of the Massachusetts Prohibition State Committee. Records date from 1886-1914, with some undated items. Files for 1902 and 1904 are the largest.</p> <p>Included are: announcements, circulars, flyers, menus, posters, programs, and tickets for Party banquets, conferences, meetings, rallies, and other events; printed treasurers' reports; lists of Party candidates, officers, and members; certificates submitted to the New York City Police Board, later to the Board of Elections, notifying them of Party candidates for various offices; printed pamphlets stating platforms, facts, and statistics, describing candidates, and containing speeches; lists of delegates, delegate certificates issued to Hillard, handbooks, local maps, and other material relating to New York City, New York State, and national Party conventions; constitutions, by-laws, and rules of order; poll watcher certificates issued to Hillard; statistics on voting; scattered minutes; miscellaneous notes and accounts.</p> <p>Letters to Hillard concerning Party matters from William Wardwell, Alfred Lee Manierre, John McKee, and other New York Party officials; Party officials from elsewhere in the state; New York City government officials; others.</p> <p>Included is a file containing letters to Hillard from Party officials requesting supplies of buttons, pins, pictures, a banner, and other items, or acknowledging receipt of them, and from manufacturers of these items concerning Hillard's orders for the Party. Sketches for flyers and buttons; catalogs of political novelty items; and examples of these items are included. Dated material is largely from 1904.</p>"}