{"value"=>"<p>Included in the collection is a substantial amount of, mostly, printed material issued by a variety of prohibition groups ranging in size from small, local clubs to national organizations. Some material comes from anti-vice, church, political, reform, women's, or other groups that supported prohibition or expressed positions about it. Organizations are located very largely in the five boroughs of New York City; some are national organizations; a small number are located in New Jersey, and a handful is from elsewhere in the United States and abroad. Groups represented include: American Temperance Union; Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America; Central Prohibition Workers Club, New York; Clinton B. Fisk Prohibition League, Elizabeth, New Jersey; Committee of Fifteen, New York; Epworth League, Chapter 2625, Brooklyn; Flying Squadron of America; the Friends (the Quarterly Meeting's Temperance Committee, Brooklyn, and the New York Monthly Meeting's Philanthropic Committee); Intercollegiate Prohibition League, Chicago; Junior League; Junior Prohibition League; Manhattan Liberal Club; National Prohibition Park, Staten Island; National Temperance Society; New York Anti-Saloon League; North Side Prohibition Workers Club, Bronx; political parties (American Party, Citizens' Union, Democratic Party, People's Party, Republican Party, Social Democratic Party); Royal Templers of Temperance, Manhattan Council #87; Sons of Temperance of the Eastern District of New York State; Women's Christian Temperance Union; Woman's Prohibition Club of America; World's Temperance Centennial Congress, held 1908, Saratoga Springs, New York; Young Men's Christian Association; Yorkville and Harlem Workers Prohibition Club, New York; the Young People's Prohibition League (with separate Bronx, Brooklyn, Harlem, Manhattan, and West Side groups, and an interstate New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania group); others.</p> <p>Material dates from approximately the 1880s through 1914. Included are announcements, invitations, programs, tickets, menus, broadsides, posters, circulars, and flyers for events sponsored by these organizations: rallies, meetings, conferences, debates, lectures, oratorical contests, holiday celebrations, picnics, banquets, plays, concerts, excursions, socials, tea parties, receptions, and memorial services. Information brochures, publications, constitutions and by-laws, membership cards, temperance pledge cards, and song sheets of these organizations are included. Letters to Hillard are included, and some of the printed material is addressed to him.</p> <p>Also included here is printed material issued by individual prohibitionist speakers and writers, notably J. H. Hector, a black prohibitionist known as the \"Black Knight\"; prohibition lecturer Rev. C. Henry Mead; and Rev. Stephen Merritt, Prohibitionist and New York City undertaker.</p> <p>Of note is a large file, 1890s-1900s, on National Prohibition Park. The Park, founded in the early 1890s and located on Staten Island, New York, was a residence and summer resort community, as well as a meeting place for prohibition and religious groups. Programs of events, souvenir and promotional brochures, advertising material for the Park Hotel and Restaurant, and letters concerning lots in the Park are included. B. F. Funk and Isaac K. Funk, of the Funk and Wagnall's Company were President and Secretary.</p>"}