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        • Poster 1 - Non-Essential
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        • Poster 3 - Strength - Endurance - Skill
        • Poster 4 - Let's all go Clean Over The Top
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      • Ohio Dry Campaign 4
      • Ohio Dry Campaign - Office 1
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      • Ohio Dry Campaign - Office 3
      • Ohio Dry Campaign - Office 4
      • Ohio Dry Campaign - Office 5
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    • The Federal Council of Churches
    • Women's Nat'l Committee for Law Enforcement
    • Fiorello LaGuardia on Prohibition
    • Student Testimony Against Prohibition
  • Cartoons
    • Introduction
    • Cartoon 1 - I Am Innocent
    • Cartoon 2 - Gold Dust Twins
    • Cartoon 3 - Woodman
    • Cartoon 4 - The American Eagle
    • Cartoon 5 - Modern Devil Fish
    • Cartoon 6 - Crown of Principle and Political Righteousness
    • Cartoon 7 - Respectable Vote
    • Cartoon 8 - Thirty Pieces of Silver
    • Cartoon 9 - His Master's Voice
    • Cartoon 10 - Yank The Saloon Tooth Out
    • Cartoon 11 - The Charmer
    • Cartoon 12 - Eyes Have They
    • Cartoon 13 - Punch and Judy
    • Cartoon 14 - Foxes and The "Sour" Grapes
    • Cartoon 15 - Perfectly Neutral
    • Cartoon 16 - Appeal to the Individual Voter
    • Cartoon 17 - Puzzle Picture
    • Cartoon 18 - The Saloon
    • Cartoon 19 - Stand Pat Voters
    • Cartoon 20 - Me and Betty Killed the Bar
    • Cartoon 21 - Rip Van Winkle
    • Cartoon 22 - Throwing His Vote Away
  • Industry
    • The production of beer in the United States, 1870-1970
    • Pabst of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    • Anheuser-Busch
    • The L. Hoster Brewing Co.
  • Crusade
    • The Woman's Crusade in Xenia, Ohio
    • The Woman's Crusade in South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio
  • Saloons
    • The Saloon in an Illinois Coal-Mining Town
    • Saloons in Chicago Before World War I
    • Saloons of Homestead
    • Saloons in New York
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    • Biography of Frances E. Willard
    • Speech by Frances E. Willard
    • Frances Willard's Last Interview
    • Eulogy of Frances E. Willard

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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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