Gretchen --
I don't have it handy to check, but Cherrington's Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem is always a good bet for what was going on through sometime in the 1920s.
It has stuff on the history of different alcoholic beverages in Mexico, and nothing that I can see on temperance etc., but you might look for a lavishly produced 2 volume set of authored papers:
(no author), Beber de tierra generosa. [Mexico City?]: Fundación de Investigaciones Sociales, A.C. (FISAC), 1998. Volume 1 is subtitled Historia de las bebidos alcohólicas en México, and vol. 2 Ciencia de las bebidas alcohólicas en México. Robin
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From: Alcohol and Temperance History Group
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Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:49 PM
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Subject: Re: archival information
The 2003 ABC-CLIO encyclopedia article by Guillermina Natera includes a
long bibliography.
At 03:22 PM 3/9/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>My name is Gretchen Pierce and I am PhD student in Latin American history
>at the University of Arizona. I will soon be beginning my dissertation on
>anti-alcohol campaigns in Mexico (specifically the states of Oaxaca and
>Sonora) in the 1920s and 30s. I have already done a lot of preliminary
>work on the topic, and I feel pretty confident that I know which archives
>to visit once I get to Mexico (though any suggestions would certainly be
>appreciated.) I am hoping to get some help, though, on archives to visit
>in the U.S. I've done some work in the Arizona Historical Society in
>Tucson and I know that WCTU branches in southern Arizona tried
>to "proselytize" to Mexican-American women, and perhaps to Mexican women,
>as well. I would like to find more information about temperance work in
>Mexico, through perhaps the WCTU, the Anti-Saloon League, the Templars,
>etc. Can anyone steer me in the right direction? Is the main WCTU
>archive in Evanston, IL? Is it fairly accessible?
>
>Thanks in advance for any help you can provide,
>
>Gretchen Pierce
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