This persuasive map of Manhattan extends up to 114th Street and shows locations with liquor licenses in red overprinting. A note at left states that, as of April 1886, “there were 9,168 licenses to sell intoxicating liquor in force in the city, and 1,000 places, by estimate, were selling without licenses.” This map is featured in the 540-page temperance volume The Temperance Movement: or, the Conflict Between Man and Alcohol (not present) by Henry William Blair, a U.S. Senator, who introduced the first bill to ban liquor. Blair states in the preface that “it is not an exaggeration to say that no other evil known in human history has been of such vast proportions and lamentable consequences as that of alcoholic intemperance.”

References: PJ Mode Collection #1098.

Condition: A

Issued folding on a clean sheet.