18.5 x 13 on sheet 23 x 14 (centimeters, height x width)
Notes:
These maps illustrate a pamphlet by Robert Graham, Secretary of the Church Temperance Society, an Episcopal organization founded in 1881. See generally Vaughan 2018, 185-87. His pamphlet argued that it was uniquely difficult to control intemperance in New York, because much of the City's population was "not fused into the general national life;" was "crowded into tenement houses;" and contained an "abnormal proportion of the criminal classes of Europe, who have settled in and make it the centre of their operations." Liquordom, p.4.
The maps were drawn "to make the huge disproportion of saloons apparent to the eye, . . . especially in the poorer quarters of the city" and to show "how vast an ulcer it was on the face of this fair city." Graham concluded that "the number of liquor saloons is infinitely beyond the reasonable and legitimate requirements of the population." Ibid. p.6.
