New Prohibition Fashion
A little flask in your garter - such a handy way to carry your bathtub gin.
Destroying beer by the case
In Philadelphia, they didn't take a hatchet to one bottle - they destroyed whole cases.
Cows have shoes?
A revenooer shows off "cow shoes". Moonshiners would fasten these wood blocks to their shoes so that the agents couldn't track them to their still. Ingenious!
Kind face - but she carried a hatchet!
Carry Nation, known for entering taverns and using a hatchet to destroy bottles of alcohol.
Is someone sneaking a sip?
In Illinois, they confiscated a load of beer - is the man in the middle trying to sneak a sip?
Let's toast the end!
Band leader Ted Lewis and a bevy of beauties toasting the end of Prohibition in 1933.
Prohibition art?
With today's mindset, we can't tell what this art is supposed to say. Do you know?
He's gonna get you
Chief Prohibition Inspector - doesn't he look like he's serious about his job?
John Barleycorn's grave
In Connecticut, they took Prohibition seriously.
Thrilling chase!
A couple of bootleggers caught after a car chase in 1922.
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