prohibition

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Trophy heads within the Mint Bar in Sheridan, Wyoming. Except for a hi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Old Oscar Pepper Distillery, 7855 McCracken Pike, Versailles, Woodford...

2016 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Labrot & Graham's Old Oscar Pepper Distillery is associated with the foundation of the bourbon distilling industry, a distinctly national spirit with its hist... More

Peter Schoenhofen Brewery, West Eighteenth Street & Canalport Avenue, ...

See Written Historical & Desriptive Data pages for reduced copies of drawings. Significance: The Schoenhofen Brewery has historic significance as the only major pre-Prohibition brewery in Chicago to have its st... More

Prohibition party leaders of 1884

S6960 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bengough & Co.

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, U.S. Customs Service Residence...

Significance: Built in 1933, the U.S. Customs Service (USCS) Residence is an integral component of the historic border station complex comprising the Port of Roosville. The building served as a dwelling provid... More

West Overton, West Overton, Westmoreland County, PA

See also HABS PA-5655 through PA-5664 for additional information. Significance: The Village of West Overton grew out of a family farm established in 1803 by henry Overholt. Coming to Westmoreland County from Bu... More

Rum-running a crime not a business. Prohibition a growth not a fixed s...

Page Order: Tri-fold Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 138, Folder 24b.

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Immigration & Naturalization S...

Significance: Built in 1933, the Immigration and Naturalization (INS) Residence is an integral component of the historic border station complex comprising the Port of Roosville. The building served as a dwelli... More

Amer. Fed. of Labor, Prohibition demonstration, June 14, 1919

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Amer. Fed. Labor, Prohibition demonstration, June 14, 1919

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Zion City, Ill., destroys 80,000 pint bottles of beer

W. Hurd Clendinen (or Clendenin?), mayor of Zion City, pouring away two bottles of beer.

Prohibition Vote, 2/3/23 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Ruben B. Sams, New Provincial Prohibition Chief of Eastern Pennsylvani...

A couple of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stop when you see this sign. This is the new insignia plate the Bureau...

A couple of men standing next to a car, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve. On sleeve: Watch Your Credit Line. Gift; Harris & Ewin... More

And that's what's the matter with Hanna

No accession number. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

Old Oscar Pepper Distillery, 7855 McCracken Pike, Versailles, Woodford...

2016 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Labrot & Graham's Old Oscar Pepper Distillery is associated with the foundation of the bourbon distilling industry, a distinctly national spirit with its hist... More

Brief history of prohibition and of the prohibition reform party

Also available in digital form.

Peter Schoenhofen Brewery, West Eighteenth Street & Canalport Avenue, ...

See Written Historical & Desriptive Data pages for reduced copies of drawings. Significance: The Schoenhofen Brewery has historic significance as the only major pre-Prohibition brewery in Chicago to have its st... More

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, U.S. Customs Service Residence...

Significance: Built in 1933, the U.S. Customs Service (USCS) Residence is an integral component of the historic border station complex comprising the Port of Roosville. The building served as a dwelling provid... More

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Main Port Building, U.S. Highw...

Significance: Built in 1933, the Main Port Building Port of Roosville is an excellent example of federal border station architecture produced by the Treasury Department during the 1930s along the U.S.-Canada bo... More

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Main Port Building, U.S. Highw...

Significance: Built in 1933, the Main Port Building Port of Roosville is an excellent example of federal border station architecture produced by the Treasury Department during the 1930s along the U.S.-Canada bo... More

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Main Port Building, U.S. Highw...

Significance: Built in 1933, the Main Port Building Port of Roosville is an excellent example of federal border station architecture produced by the Treasury Department during the 1930s along the U.S.-Canada bo... More

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Main Port Building, U.S. Highw...

Significance: Built in 1933, the Main Port Building Port of Roosville is an excellent example of federal border station architecture produced by the Treasury Department during the 1930s along the U.S.-Canada bo... More

Costello Brothers, Incorporated, Warehouse, 111 Harris Avenue, Provide...

Significance: Constructed ca. 1939, the Costello Brothers, Inc. Warehouse is significant for its associations with the development of the Provisions Warehouse District of Providence. The building housed the Co... More

Costello Brothers, Incorporated, Warehouse, 111 Harris Avenue, Provide...

Significance: Constructed ca. 1939, the Costello Brothers, Inc. Warehouse is significant for its associations with the development of the Provisions Warehouse District of Providence. The building housed the Co... More

[The sacred cider grove] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Cartoon of a gentleman on horseback at the gate of an apple orchard, talking and laughing with an old, bearded laborer. No copyright information found with item. Published caption reads: "Are those good eating ... More

[Barrels of confiscated(?) liquor in building]

National Photo Company Collection.

Anti Prohibition group, 1/21/24

A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Bottles and barrel of confiscated whiskey]

Public domain photograph - historical image of Kentucky, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[...] to the Internat'l convention held in [Canada?] Left to right: Dr...

A group of women standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Test vote on prohibition taken in Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 1923]

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. In album: Washington, D.C., Jan. 1923 to Jan. 1924, v. 1, Herbert E. French, National Photo Company. National Photo Company Collection (Librar... More

Putting a kick in the staid old Schuylkill here go a few barrels of be...

Photograph shows Public Safety Director, Smedley D. "Duckboards" Butler, destroying kegs of beer with an axe.

Delegation of Maryland women at Capitol on prohibition hearing

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Group: Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform]

Public domain photograph - female portrait, the 1910s, 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Living room at "the Hideout," the Northwoods retreat of Chicago gangst...

Al Capone's men would unload smuggled liquor from Canada that seaplanes would deliver to the Hideout's private lake. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; som... More

Putting the mortgage on the cradle

Print shows a saloon keeper nailing sign "inhereted appetite for liquor" on a cradle. Series G. No. 19. Exhibited: "Capitol Visitor Center" at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 2016-2017.

Old Oscar Pepper Distillery, 7855 McCracken Pike, Versailles, Woodford...

2016 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Labrot & Graham's Old Oscar Pepper Distillery is associated with the foundation of the bourbon distilling industry, a distinctly national spirit with its hist... More

Peter Schoenhofen Brewery, West Eighteenth Street & Canalport Avenue, ...

See Written Historical & Desriptive Data pages for reduced copies of drawings. Significance: The Schoenhofen Brewery has historic significance as the only major pre-Prohibition brewery in Chicago to have its st... More

Peter Schoenhofen Brewery, West Eighteenth Street & Canalport Avenue, ...

See Written Historical & Desriptive Data pages for reduced copies of drawings. Significance: The Schoenhofen Brewery has historic significance as the only major pre-Prohibition brewery in Chicago to have its st... More

Peter Schoenhofen Brewery, West Eighteenth Street & Canalport Avenue, ...

See Written Historical & Desriptive Data pages for reduced copies of drawings. Significance: The Schoenhofen Brewery has historic significance as the only major pre-Prohibition brewery in Chicago to have its st... More

Bless you my child / O. Herford.

Cartoon showing Uncle Sam holding up ball "prohibition" attached to chain, which is attached to demure young woman on "the Island of Yap." Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet... More

Sixteenth Convention, Anti-Saloon League of America at Atlantic City, ...

On front: "By Thomas Sparrow, Panoramic Photographer, Cleveland, O." Image same as panorama no. 8 in this LOT. Gift; Ed J. Richardson; October 26, 1951.

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, U.S. Highway 93, immediately s...

Public domain photograph of American trade card, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Board of Directors, Anti-Saloon League of America, Indianapolis, April...

Photographer's address: Ind'pls. Gift; Ed J. Richardson; October 26, 1951. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Main Port Building, U.S. Highw...

Significance: Built in 1933, the Main Port Building Port of Roosville is an excellent example of federal border station architecture produced by the Treasury Department during the 1930s along the U.S.-Canada bo... More

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Main Port Building, U.S. Highw...

Significance: Built in 1933, the Main Port Building Port of Roosville is an excellent example of federal border station architecture produced by the Treasury Department during the 1930s along the U.S.-Canada bo... More

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Main Port Building, U.S. Highw...

Significance: Built in 1933, the Main Port Building Port of Roosville is an excellent example of federal border station architecture produced by the Treasury Department during the 1930s along the U.S.-Canada bo... More

Costello Brothers, Incorporated, Warehouse, 111 Harris Avenue, Provide...

Significance: Constructed ca. 1939, the Costello Brothers, Inc. Warehouse is significant for its associations with the development of the Provisions Warehouse District of Providence. The building housed the Co... More

Costello Brothers, Incorporated, Warehouse, 111 Harris Avenue, Provide...

Significance: Constructed ca. 1939, the Costello Brothers, Inc. Warehouse is significant for its associations with the development of the Provisions Warehouse District of Providence. The building housed the Co... More

Costello Brothers, Incorporated, Warehouse, 111 Harris Avenue, Provide...

Significance: Constructed ca. 1939, the Costello Brothers, Inc. Warehouse is significant for its associations with the development of the Provisions Warehouse District of Providence. The building housed the Co... More

The closed canteen and the open dive / Keppler.

Illustration shows an old woman labeled "Prohibition" and holding an umbrella labeled "Intolerance", standing between two sluices that power waterwheels; she is holding a board in the shape of the U.S. Capitol ... More

[Woman seated at a soda fountain table is pouring alcohol into a cup f...

A black and white photo of a woman sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American man carrying a case of "Four Roses" whiskey on his s...

National Photo Co., no. 4502. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

Zion City, Ill., destroys 80,000 pint bottles of beer

Mrs. Graze Knippen of Zion City holding up bottle of beer as she helps get rid of the beer. National Photo Co. Collection. Copyrighted by Press Illustrating Service, N.Y.

The "Hooch hound" in action, National Photo Company, Washington DC

Man seated on pier, with pipe in his mouth, fishing on the Potomac River, as dog trained to detect liquor takes a bottle from his back pocket. National Photo Company Collection. No. 17650.

[Woman holding poster "Abolish Prohibition!"]

A woman in a dress holding up a poster. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Marijuana : the new prohibition : a film-lecture presentation by NORML...

Poster depicts dark city street with police. Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prohibition, musical notation - Public domain American sheet music 187...

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

No beer, no work! a humorous song

This is a public-domain musical notation scan. There were many music publishers in the United States during the 1900s. Some of the most well-known ones include G. Schirmer, Inc., Boosey & Hawkes, and Hal Leonar... More

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, U.S. Customs Service Residence...

Significance: Built in 1933, the U.S. Customs Service (USCS) Residence is an integral component of the historic border station complex comprising the Port of Roosville. The building served as a dwelling provid... More

West Overton, West Overton, Westmoreland County, PA

See also HABS PA-5655 through PA-5664 for additional information. Significance: The Village of West Overton grew out of a family farm established in 1803 by henry Overholt. Coming to Westmoreland County from Bu... More

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Main Port Building, U.S. Highw...

Significance: Built in 1933, the Main Port Building Port of Roosville is an excellent example of federal border station architecture produced by the Treasury Department during the 1930s along the U.S.-Canada bo... More

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Immigration & Naturalization S...

Significance: Built in 1933, the Immigration and Naturalization (INS) Residence is an integral component of the historic border station complex comprising the Port of Roosville. The building served as a dwelli... More

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Immigration & Naturalization S...

Significance: Built in 1933, the Immigration and Naturalization (INS) Residence is an integral component of the historic border station complex comprising the Port of Roosville. The building served as a dwelli... More

National Conference, World Wide Prohibition, Columbus, O., Nov. 19th-2...

Gift; Ed J. Richardson; October 26, 1951. Public domain photograph of an official meeting, group portrait of people, managers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Amer. Fed. of Labor Prohibition Demonstration, June 14, 1919

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a crowd. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Treasury, Internal Reverend Chemist G.F. Beyer

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Caption from caption list: Chemist G. F. Beyer of the Internal Revenue... More

Prohibition officers raiding the lunch room of 922 Pennsylvania Ave., ...

National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Biographical sketches of General John Bidwell, prohibition nominee for...

Also available in digital form.

Peter Schoenhofen Brewery, West Eighteenth Street & Canalport Avenue, ...

See Written Historical & Desriptive Data pages for reduced copies of drawings. Significance: The Schoenhofen Brewery has historic significance as the only major pre-Prohibition brewery in Chicago to have its st... More

Peter Schoenhofen Brewery, West Eighteenth Street & Canalport Avenue, ...

See Written Historical & Desriptive Data pages for reduced copies of drawings. Significance: The Schoenhofen Brewery has historic significance as the only major pre-Prohibition brewery in Chicago to have its st... More

Peter Schoenhofen Brewery, West Eighteenth Street & Canalport Avenue, ...

See Written Historical & Desriptive Data pages for reduced copies of drawings. Significance: The Schoenhofen Brewery has historic significance as the only major pre-Prohibition brewery in Chicago to have its st... More

[Two men posing with a whiskey still]

Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

Activities of the Internal Revenue Dept. to enforce prohibition Dr. A....

Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Anti-Saloon League at Washington, D.C., Dec. 8, 1921

Photographer's address: 607 Pa. Ave. N.W., Washington D.C. Gift; Ed J. Richardson; October 26, 1951.

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, U.S. Customs Service Residence...

Significance: Built in 1933, the U.S. Customs Service (USCS) Residence is an integral component of the historic border station complex comprising the Port of Roosville. The building served as a dwelling provid... More

Anti prohibition - Print, Library of Congress collection

T29058 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Kurz & Allison.

Return of W. E. "Pusseyfoot" Johnson to Westerville from London, Engla...

Gift; Ed J. Richardson; October 26, 1951. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arret du Conseil d'Etat du Roi, September 28, 1788, Prohibition of For...

Prohibition of Foreign Fish Oils; Printed in French

Moonshine still recently confiscated by the Internal Revenue Bureau ph...

Man standing next to still looking at contents of glass. No. 4214. National Photo Company Collection.

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Main Port Building, U.S. Highw...

Significance: Built in 1933, the Main Port Building Port of Roosville is an excellent example of federal border station architecture produced by the Treasury Department during the 1930s along the U.S.-Canada bo... More

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Immigration & Naturalization S...

Significance: Built in 1933, the Immigration and Naturalization (INS) Residence is an integral component of the historic border station complex comprising the Port of Roosville. The building served as a dwelli... More

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Immigration & Naturalization S...

Significance: Built in 1933, the Immigration and Naturalization (INS) Residence is an integral component of the historic border station complex comprising the Port of Roosville. The building served as a dwelli... More

National Prohibition Park, Westerleigh, borough of Richmond, Staten Is...

Aerial view to horizon. Existing buildings and residences shown pictorially. Relief shown by landform drawings. Contains cadastral map of National Prohibition Park residential subdivision showing new streets, t... More

The kidnappers / Hy Mayer ; by Hy Mayer.

Illustration shows at center, Theodore Roosevelt kidnapping the "G.O.P." elephant (this figure can be rotated 180° to show Roosevelt being kidnapped by the "G.O.P."); around this image are vignette scenes showi... More

Whiskey - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Man may possibly be African American. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. Ge... More

Treasury, Internal Reverend Chemist G.F. Beyer

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from caption list. Caption from caption list: Activities on the Internal Revenue Bureau to enforce pr... More

[Representative William D. Upshaw of Georgia, a leader of the drys, st...

The original U.S. Capitol building, known as the "Old Capitol," was a small brick building that was completed in 1800. It served as the Capitol building until the current building was completed in the 1850s. Th... More

Bishop Cannon and Women Drys. Bishop James Cannon, Jr., Generalissimo ...

A group of people standing around a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Peter Schoenhofen Brewery, West Eighteenth Street & Canalport Avenue, ...

See Written Historical & Desriptive Data pages for reduced copies of drawings. Significance: The Schoenhofen Brewery has historic significance as the only major pre-Prohibition brewery in Chicago to have its st... More

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

West Overton, West Overton, Westmoreland County, PA

See also HABS PA-5655 through PA-5664 for additional information. Significance: The Village of West Overton grew out of a family farm established in 1803 by henry Overholt. Coming to Westmoreland County from Bu... More

Latest thing in flasks. Mlle. Rhea, dainty dancer who is now in the ci...

Mlle. Rhea seated with flask in garter on leg. National Photo Company Collection.

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Main Port Building, U.S. Highw...

Significance: Built in 1933, the Main Port Building Port of Roosville is an excellent example of federal border station architecture produced by the Treasury Department during the 1930s along the U.S.-Canada bo... More

U.S. Customs Service Port of Roosville, Main Port Building, U.S. Highw...

Significance: Built in 1933, the Main Port Building Port of Roosville is an excellent example of federal border station architecture produced by the Treasury Department during the 1930s along the U.S.-Canada bo... More

Costello Brothers, Incorporated, Warehouse, 111 Harris Avenue, Provide...

Significance: Constructed ca. 1939, the Costello Brothers, Inc. Warehouse is significant for its associations with the development of the Provisions Warehouse District of Providence. The building housed the Co... More

Constables the Des Moines Searchers and Advance Guard of the Fighting ...

Photograph shows group portrait of constables: Thomas Chapman, John Marian, Frank Blyler, Joseph Mercer, Frank Pierce, O.C. West, George Hanson, G.B. Hamilton, George Cleggett and G.W. Potts [posed with bloodho... More

[Wet block in Congress meets to plan for wet legislation. Rep. John Ph...

Twenty-four men posed standing on steps of the U.S. Capitol. National Photo Company Collection.