prohibition amendment

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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

Photographs of Senators who voted "Aye" on the resolution submitting t...

Montage showing individual portraits of senators surrounding a larger portrait of Abraham Lincoln. No. 2. Source unknown.

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

Social qualities of our candidate, Political Cartoon

Reports of his alcoholism haunted Democratic candidate Franklin Pierce during the 1852 campaign. The matter is taken up here with mocking reference to the Maine Liquor Law of 1851, a landmark prohibition measur... 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

Loco Foco candidates travelling, on the canel system

Several prospective Democratic presidential candidates travel along a canal in the "Salt River Barge," named after the proverbial river of political defeat. The passengers are (left to right): Lewis Cass, secre... More

The political quadrille. Music by Dred Scott

A general parody on the 1860 presidential contest, highlighting the impact of the Dred Scott decision on the race. That controversial decision, handed down in 1857 by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, ruled that ne... More

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

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

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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...

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U.S. Chamber attacks Labor Act at Capitol. Washington, D.C., June 26. ...

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

Mrs. Brown at Child Labor hearing. Washington, D.C., May 20. Mrs. La R...

A woman sitting at a table with a pen and paper. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conservation. Wooden manhole covers. Alfred Jones, Los Angeles County,...

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Oasis-like palm trees in the otherwise barren Death Valley National Pa...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. An anomalous attraction in Death Valley, it is removed from most of the park in its far-northern reaches near the Nevada border. Death Valley Ranch, as t... 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

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

Woman's holy war. Grand charge on the enemy's works

The "Holy War" was the nineteenth-century crusade for temperance and prohibition, whose advocates were predominantly clergymen and women. Here a young woman in armor on a black horse leads a group of similarly ... More

Uncle Sam's "crazes" past and present / F. Opper.

Print shows a vignette cartoon depicting the current "craze" for "Free Silver", showing Uncle Sam riding a silver rocking horse, and participating in several fads "Past and Present", such as the "Blue Glass Cra... More

New prohibition law asked for Alaska. Washington D.C. Consumption of l...

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Treasury, Internal Reverend Chemist G.F. Beyer

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The Largest still in captivity, National Photo Company, Washington DC

Lt. O.T. Davis, Sergt. J.D. McQuade, George Fowler of Internal Revenue Service and H.G. Bauer with the largest still ever taken in the national capitol and bottles of liquor. National Photo Company Collection. No. 21285.

[Hooch Hound, a dog trained to detect liquor (as suggested to Commissi...

No. 17649. National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prohibition chiefs testify before Ways and Means Committee of the Hous...

Asst. Secretary of the Treasury and prohibition czar Lincoln C. Andrews and the Commissioner of Prohibition, Roy C. Haynes outside of the House of Representatives. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

Women from New Jersey at Capitol to prohibition hearing, 4/12/26

A group of women holding signs in front of a building. 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

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

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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.

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

A question of duty / J.S. Pughe.

Illustration shows President Theodore Roosevelt standing next to Uncle Sam who is sitting on a stool in a "U.S. Custom House", Roosevelt has his left hand on Sam's right arm and he is gesturing to the left, tow... More

Said prohibition Maine to prohibition Georgia: "Here's looking at you"...

Illustration shows two men, one labeled "Georgia" and the other labeled "Maine", both are holding bottles, one labeled "Orange Phosphate" and the other labeled "Cold Tea" which contain alcohol; their pockets ar... More

Truck loads of beer enroute to Chicago, which were waylaid and capture...

Six men holding bottles of beer. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Copyright by Press Illustrating Service, New York.

The genii of intolerance A dangerous ally for the cause of women suffr...

Cartoon showing a genii "Prohibition" rising from a bottle labeled "Injustice Intolera[nce] Hypocr[isy]" tearing at a woman's banner reading "Votes for Women" as the woman flees from his clutches.

Whiskey - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

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[Woman putting flask in her Russian boot, Washington, D.C.]

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After a thrilling chase through the busiest streets of Washington, ......

National Photo Company Collection. No. 18491. The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Com... More

[Policeman standing alongside wrecked car and cases of moonshine]

Public domain photograph of car crash, accident, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Group of men holding bones, probably connected to "Bone dry" support ...

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

A couple of men standing next to a car. 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

Silver City men erect Barleycorn monument

Tombstone dedicated to John Barleycorn giving his death as January 16, 1920, the date of the ratification of the 18th Amendment, on the grounds of the 1711 Club in Meriden, Conn. National Photo Company Collection.

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

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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

Photographs of Senators who voted "Aye" on the resolution submitting t...

Montage showing individual portraits of senators surrounding a larger portrait of Abraham Lincoln. No. 2. Source unknown.

Mrs. Raphael Marengin, [...] St., first floor rear. Pepine, 10 yrs. ol...

Public domain photograph related to child labor, 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

Golden Jubilee and Fifteenth Annual Convention, Anti-Saloon League of ...

On front: "Copyright 1913, Thomas Sparrow, Panoramic Photographer, 7903 Decker Ave., Cleveland, O." Image duplicates copyrighted item, PAN SUBJECT - Groups Gift; Ed J. Richardson; October 26, 1951.

Elsie Hill speaking [at street meeting in St. Paul, Minn., during Proh...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Elsie Hill, standing in the back seat of an automobile that is parked at curb, speaking to a crowd of people (mostly men} standing on a sidewalk, on a street ... More

Treasury, Internal Reverend Chemist G.F. Beyer

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Telling the corpse he's dead / Dennis McCarthy.

An old man wearing a top hat "Prohibition", reads a broadsheet "Supreme Court Decision" while standing before a tombstone covered with cobwebs; the Supreme Court ruled against a New Jersey state law legalizing ... More

[Two men of the U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau(?) carrying packages of c...

No. 4501. National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph of Hungary, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Men standing in warehouse with cases of confiscated(?) liquor]

National Photo Co. Collection. No. 4501.

[Girls counting prohibition vote taken by National Liberal Alliance, W...

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

A Consignment recently received from Philadelphia., Pennsylvania 749 c...

Nine men smashing bottles in dump. Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Principles of the Prohibition party

T24898 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Raabe.

Silver City men erect Barleycorn monument

Tombstone dedicated to John Barleycorn giving his death as January 16, 1920, the date of the ratification of the 18th Amendment, on the grounds of the 1711 Club in Meriden, Conn. National Photo Company Collection.

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

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

A bill prohibiting for a limited time, the exportation of arms and amm...

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.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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. 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

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, 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

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

Abolition frowned down. Book illustration from Library of Congress

A satire on enforcement of the "gag-rule" in the House of Representatives, prohibiting discussion of the question of slavery. Growing antislavery sentiment in the North coincided with increased resentment by so... 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

Chart of the world, on Mercator's projection. Illustrative of the impo...

Map showing sugar producing areas where slave labor is used, contrasted with sugar producing areas with which trade is restricted or prohibited because of high duties which protect the sugar of the slave economy.

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

Photographs of Representatives who voted "Aye" on the resolution submi...

Montage showing individual portraits of representatives surrounding a larger portrait of Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax. No. 3 Source unknown.

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