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Title Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America printed material.
Author Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America
Collection Associations
Call# AC0077
Year Range from 1874
Year Range to 1943
Language English
Summary -Constitutions: 1888 (2 copies), 1893, 1897 (2 copies), and 1906.
-Constitution and Proceedings of the Annual Conventions: 1882, 1886-1895,
1897-1901, 1903-1909, 1916, 1936. (1886, 1887, 1889, 1898-1900,
1903-1905 2 copies each).
-Souvenir programs from annual meetings: 1887: Philadelphia; 1895: New York; 1900: Philadelphia (2 copies); 1901: Hartford; 1903: Pittsburgh; 1904: St. Louis; 1905: Wilkes-Barre, PA. (2 copies); 1906: Providence; 1908: New Haven; 1913: Philadelphia (2 copies); 1932: Boston; 1934: Philadelphia; 1943: Philadelphia (2 copies); 1949: Philadelphia.
Contains historical articles and photographs of cities where meetings were held.
-Bulletins: No. 1- 112 (some missing). 1880-1890.
-Complete, Consolidated, and Revised Rolls of Societies: 1874, 1877,
1882-1903, 1905. 16 items. (1882, 1886-1888 2 copies)
-Brochure, n.d. 2 copies.
-"Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America: What it is and why you should join
it." Pamphlet. 1881 (2 copies), and 1886.
-"Growth of the Movement." 1889.
-Pamphlet re its organization and purposes. August 5, 1891. 2 copies.
-Conaty, Rev. Thomas J., President. "Tract No. 1: Intemperance an Enemy to
Labor." 1887. 2 editions.
-C.T.A. News Pamphlet No. 1. "Great Lecture on the Saloon," by Rt. Rev. John
Ireland, Bishop of St. Paul. Delivered at Chicago, April 6, 1888. In poor
condition.
-"Manual of Total Abstinence." 1891 (2 copies), and 1898.
-"Remedies for Intemperance." 1883. 2 copies.
-"Addresses delivered at the Catholic Total Abstinence Demonstration in Central
Music Hall, Chicago, Ill, August 6, 1884. Held in Connection with the
Fourteenth Annual Convention of the C.T.A. Union of America." 2 copies.
-Paper by John H. Campbell, president of the C.T.A. Union of the Archdiocese
of Philadelphia read at the Centennial Temperance Conference, Sept. 1885,
and published in the "Memorial Volume".
-"The Amethyst," by Rev. John W. Keogh, president. n.d.
-"Papal Views of Total Abstinence." 1906.
-"Memorial of Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America." n.d.
-"Temperance Truths From Many Pens: A series of essays or addreses covering
various phases of the temperance question." Volumes I and II. n.d.
-Hymns and Songs for Catholic Total Abstinence Societies. Compiled and
Arranged by John A. Foote. 1900
-"Remedies for Intemperance." Ratified by the Convention held in Brooklyn, N.Y.,
August 1883. With letter from Pope Leo XIII and Cardinal McCloskey. 3 copies.
-Mortiarty, Rev. James J. "Total Abstinence in its Social and Theological
Aspects." Address. 1878.
Notes Unless otherwise indicated on the materials, all items in this collection have the accession number 1994.003.
Subjects Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America.
Temperance -- Societies, etc.
Object Type Printed Material
Object ID AC0077