Text transcribed from caption: TEMPERANCE GROUP HOLDS FIRST COUNCIL #3417 CHICAGO -- Several hundred temperance advocates met here for the first National Council on the New Approach to the Alcohol Problem. Top photo shows a general view of the opening session with Errol T. Elliott presiding. Below, three delegates display anti-liquor poster. Left to right are: the Rev. Norman Lovein, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. Edna Alstrom, Chicago, and Mrs. Jerome B. Wilson, Racine, Wis. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (AN-CHI-MES-5A-6-W)

Newman, Art. (photographer)

1946

still image

negatives

negative : black-and-white ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Lovein, Norman.
Alstrom, Edna.

Congresses and conventions--Illinois--Chicago.
Alcoholism--Prevention--Congresses.
Temperance--Congresses.
Temperance--United States.

Illinois
Chicago.
United States.
Chicago (Ill.)
North and Central America--United States--Illinois--Cook--Chicago

IN COPYRIGHT; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

PHS staff unsuccessfully attempted to identify the full name of "Mrs. Jerome B. Wilson."

Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-...

RNS RG 1, image no. 3417; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_3417a

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