Title: the drunkard's progress
abstract: print shows an archway of the nine steps of a drunkard's progress, beginning with a man in fancy dress having "a glass with a friend" and then his gradual decline in society with poverty & disease, criminal activity, becoming a bum, and his eventual "death by suicide"; two men, one on horseback and another with sacks, are in foreground. Physical description: 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 44. 9 x 34. 3 cm (sheet)
notes: inscribed below image: 198. Deposited in the clerk's office for the so. Dist. Of new york june 15, 1846.;copyright by kelloggs & thayer, n. Y.;exhibited: prohibition, national constitution center, philadelphia, pa.;kelloggs & thayer, 144 fulton st. N. Y.;e. B. & e. C. Kellogg, 136 main st. Hartford, conn.;d. Needham, 223 main st. , buffalo. Date: 1846.
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