Government Decrees and Actions
Title
Government Decrees and Actions
Description
A collection of government publications and publishings that provided the structure for the Bureau of Prohibition.
Collection Items
Ruben B. Sams, New Provincial Prohibition Chief of Eastern Pennsylvania and Southern N.J.
Photograph of Prohibition Chief Sams walking to Treasury Department Building
Activities of the Internal Revenue Dept. to enforce prohibition
Dr. A. B. Adams, head of the division of technology of the Internal Revenue.
3 principals before testifying before the subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the start of the fight for amendment of the Volstead law
Lincoln C. Andrews, Emery C. Ruckner, and John Philip Hill, three-quarter length portrait, standing outside Capitol.
And now a beer meter
And now a beer meter. Washington, D.C., May 1. To aid Uncle Same in collecting the tax on the millions of barrels of beer brewed in this country every year, the National Bureau of Standards has designed a master beer meter for use of the alcohol unit…
Stop when you see this sign.
This is the new insignia plate the Bureau of Prohibition has adopted for use by prohibition agents in stopping suspected automobiles. In the photograph, from left to right, are; Prohibition Administrator Ames Woodcock, H.M. Lucious, secretary of the…