prohibition in 1920 s

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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

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

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...

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

Treasury, Internal Reverend Chemist G.F. Beyer

Public domain photograph of laboratory, science, research, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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...

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

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,...

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

[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.

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

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

In the art pen at Ellis Island - Political cartoon, public domain imag...

Illustration shows several artists identified as "Lawrence, Gainsborough, D. Teniers, Rubens, Raphael, Da Vinci, Titian, Duerer, Velasquez, Van Dyke, Reni", and the friar Girolamo Savonarola as "S", being held ... More

Congressional surgery. Legislative quackery, Political Cartoon

A rare anti-North satire, probably dealing with either the Crittenden Compromise or the Douglas Compromise. Proposed in December 1860 in the form of several constitutional amendments, the former called for rest... More

Panorama of beach and Cliff House /

This film is an afternoon panorama of weekend crowds at the north end of Ocean Beach, the western shore of San Francisco near the famed Cliff House. The film postdates the nearby Dutch Windmill (1902) and preda... More

Across! / Orr. - An open book with a drawing of a man sitting on a ben...

An old woman "Eliza Prohibition", carrying a baby "Constitutional Amendment", hops across ice floes labeled after U.S. states towards solid ground "Ratification"; in the background three dogs "brewer", "distill... More

[Cases of confiscated(?) liquor stacked in corner of room with barred ...

National Photo Co. Collection.

Masked criminal at the grave of John Barleycorn

Holding a knife in one hand and a gun in the other, the criminal shoots at a fleeing pilgrim. He stands next to Barleycorn's tombstone embellished with skull and cross bones. Inscribed on the tombstone: Hic Ja... More

[Two men standing outdoors with small still, one of them holding up bo...

National Photo Co. Collection. No. 3235.

Prohibition Unit (Cow Shoes), 6/28/24

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

Remains of a borrowed Stutz touring car after running into a tree at s...

No. 31605. National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph of car crash, accident, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

W.A. Green, Chief Prohibition Inspector, 9/5/25

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

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

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

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, 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

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

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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