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Woman seated at a soda fountain table is pouring alcohol into a cup from a cane, during Prohibition
Woman seated at a soda fountain table is pouring alcohol into a cup from a cane, during Prohibition; with a large Coca-Cola advertisement on the wall
Cow Shoes 2
Agents photographed evidence of what techniques bootleggers were using escape capture.
Cow Shoes
Fashioned by rumrunners, these shoe modifications would disguise footprints in order to confuse Prohibition agents and local authorizes.
Putting a kick in the staid old Schuylkill here go a few barrels of beer -- not 1/2 of 1 percent -- into the Schuylkill River.
Prohibition agents used the law to the fullest extent in order to bring about their goal of a dry America.
The Largest still in captivity
Prohibition agents were proud of their achievements and went to great lengths to accomplish their goals.
Agents destroy confiscated beer.
A Consignment recently received from Phila., Pa. 749 cases of beer (18,000) bottles were today destroyed in the District of Columbia
Prohibition officers raiding the lunch room of 922 Pa. Ave., Wash., D.C.
Agents engaged in raiding the bellow street level of restaurant Lunch Room.
Woman putting flask in her Russian boot, Washington, D.C.
Popular fashion became another way to defy Prohibition.
Navy nurses in Prohibition violation
Two Navy nurses who were today tried by a General Navy Court for smuggling liquor into the U.S., at the Washington Navy Yard with their two attorneys
Detroit police inspecting equipment found in a clandestine underground brewery during the prohibition era
Prohibition agents with local police officers conducted raids on illegal distilleries