Photos | Prohibition

Photos from the era of Prohibition.

Woman's Temperance Crusade: Mother Stewart and Her Staff

Woman pouring alcohol out of her walking stick, 1922

Law enforcement officers posing with stills seized in Vancouver, 1917

Law enforcement disposing of liquor, 1922

Alerted by the smell of a broken bottle of liquor, Federal Agents inspect a “lumber truck”. Los Angeles, 1926

Jersey City Police discover vats holding 5,800 gallons of illegal alcohol each

Methods of bootlegging: Confiscated pig carcasses stuffed with whiskey

Lieutenant O.T. Davis, Sergeant J.D. McQuade, George Fowler of the IRS and H.G. Bauer posed with the largest bootlegging still confiscated until that date in 1922

Anti-prohibition Protesters

Prohibition Ends At Last

Police emptying kegs of alcohol

Philadelphia Police, exhibiting one of the twelve pint bottles of liquor hidden in the papier-mache clothes dummy, draped with an evening gown, found in the tailor shop they raided

The Wet Block of Congress, men who worked to repeal the prohibition legislation as soon as it was passed

Female Bootleggers

Prohibition Officers raiding the Lunch Room of 922 Pa. Ave. in Washington D.C.

Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Not Touch Ours

A still during prohibition

A beer-laden truck breaks through the ice of Lake St. Clair en-route to Detroit from Ontario

A man uses a firemen's axe to destroy alcohol confiscated during prohibitions raids throughout Detroit

Methods of Bootlegging: Woman arrested in Minneapolis on April 10 1924 for dispensing wet goods from her life preserver

A bootlegger

These shoes were known as “cow shoes” because they left tracks that looked like cow footprints to fool prohibition agents looking for bootleggers.

Carrie Nation,Temperance advocate, known in the years prior to Prohibition for criticism of alcohol and vandalism of places that served alcohol. Seen here holding Bible and hatchet.

A distillery in Detroit discovered by prohibition agents who destroyed equipment, causing alcohol to pour out of windows

Methods of Bootlegging: Women hiding alcohol in clothing

Methods of Bootlegging: A woman hides containers of alcohol in clothing

Prescription for medicinal alcohol

Prohibition agent stands in a flatbed of confiscated alcohol at the Trumbull Street Police Station in Detroit, Michigan

Representative John Phillip Hill of Maryland displays his intent to make America a wet country again

Repeal Prohibition

An anti-prohibition protest

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