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Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform
Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform
Women's Christian Temperance Union. Mrs. Lillian Stevens and Mrs. Anna Gordon
Photograph of Anna Gordon and Lillian Stevens, both members of the influential Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Women's Christian Temperance Union. Ellen Stone
This picture portrays Women's Christian Temperance Union member, Ellen Stone. She was an active member of the group as well as a missionary.
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
Woman putting flask in her Russian boot, Washington, D.C.
Popular fashion became another way to defy Prohibition.
Widespread Crime Laid to Prohibition
Article recounts release of George Dorsey's book which claims that Prohibition has been a failure and caused more damage to society than any good.
W.A. Green Chief Prohibition Inspector
Photograph of Chief Prohibition Investigator W.A Green. Investigators went beyond traditional policing practices and began to conduct undercover work in order to stop bootlegging rings.
Two men standing outdoors with small still, one of them holding up bottle of liquor
Prohibition agents investigating the remains of an illegal alcohol still and the product being manufactured by bootleggers
Two men posing with a whiskey still
The Volstead Act primarily concerned the manufacturing and sale of alcohol. Prohibition agent were tasked to focus on illegal distilleries and transportation.
Truck loads of beer enroute to Chicago, which were waylaid and captured at Zion City, Ill. ... all bottles were destroyed
Manufacture more often than not occurred in rural areas and then transported to urban cities. Prohibition Bureau state headquarters were limited to high population areas which worked to the bootleggers advantage