Featuring Presenter: Louis MillerCartographic Reference & Teaching Librarian and Assistant Director for Research and Fellowship Programs at the University of Southern Maine’s Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education |
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What is ‘rhat soupe’ and what does it have to do with maps produced by the Temperance Movement? While perusing early photographic images to pair with John Cullum’s 1836 map of Portland, Louis Miller came across an image of a store with an advertisement for “rhat soupe.” Eager to learn more about how this nausea-inducing “soupe” gained its moniker, as well as what it was actually made out of, his research led him down a rabbit hole that ultimately reveals the clever cartographic arguments utilized nationally by the Temperance Movement in the 1830s as well as how “rhat soupe” and the 1835 court case that inspired its name, fundamentally shifted the platform of the American Temperance Society.
Event Details
- Date: Tuesday 17th March 2026
- Time: 5:30 p.m. For More Information: Please contact Lauren Hayden at lhayden@mainecc.edu and/or Daniel Moore at dmoore@mainecc.edu.
- Location: 77 Fort Road, Jewett Auditorium, Southern Maine Community College, South Portland