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Picture of workers enjoying a drink after working in the mines

Working class men drinking on the job

The history of first Olympic Games, Athens, 1896 - Events and winners

Men protesting the sale of alcohol in the United States

Poster that advertises land for sale that was once part of Native reservations.

An advertisement from 1885 endorsing cocaine drops to alleviate toothaches for children.

An advertisement from 1897 for Bayer pharmaceutical products like Heroin and Aspirin.

In the picture, early Chinese immigrants make their wages by harvesting sugar cane in large fields by hand and collecting them to make sugar.

An 1887 advertisement for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, a cough syrup for babies.

Thomas Burk getting ready to start one of his championship races

Robert Garrett hurling the discus for his winning toss

This resource was just used for the picture. This article was when the Major League Baseball was considering adding a DH to both leagues.

This graph shows the alcohol related deaths in cook county as compared to total deaths in the area from 1910-1926

A bottle of Dover's Powder, a combination of opium and Ipecac that was used on soldiers for colds.

Picture that shows what a typical door at a Speakeasy would have looked like in the 1920s

A tool kit used during the Civil War for amputation.

Picture of a group of people gathered around a sign for prohibition drinking alcohol

A couple photos that show one of the most iconic speakeasies of the prohibition era

Ad thats was using mothers as weapon to gain voters for prohibition before it passed

Postcard shows pedestrians and three entrances to the Boston subway on commercial area of Park Street.

This is a documentary on the Treaty of Versailles in 1918 and its Consequences, enjoy!
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Image of the mad rush to the Klondike in order to reach the gold and achieve the American Dream.