The gentler sex – charity for the drunken brother, contempt for the unfortunate sister
Print shows three fashionably dressed women helping a drunken man on the sidewalk, one holds a paper that states “Total Abstinence Pledge – Sign and Be Saved”; a pathway leads toward the “Drunkard’s Nursery and Palatial Asylum”. Behind them, up the sidewalk, a woman carrying an infant is turned away from the “Woman’s Home” where a window is labeled “Charity”. A young bootblack gestures toward her.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1881-09-21