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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.
Woman putting flask in her Russian boot, Washington, D.C.
Popular fashion became another way to defy Prohibition.
Police standing alongside wrecked car and cases of moonshine
Interstate moonshine transportation became dangerous as transporters began modifying their cars to drive at faster speeds and enforcers attempted to keep up.
A Pair of "bootlegs" found in the office of Lincoln C. Andrews
The term "Bootleg" came out of the common practice of hiding illegal liquor in leg of the boot to transport the contraband liquid. In this photo Miss Hattie Klawans, clerk in the office of the prohibition czar, wears her new Russian boots which were…
Cases of whiskey confiscated by the U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau
Cases of whiskey confiscated by Internal Revenue and Prohibition agents during Prohibition.
Remains of a borrowed Stutz touring car after running into a tree at seventy miles an hour, in which the bootlegger driver was killed and fifty gallons of corn liquor was destroyed and confiscated
Prohibition agents were commonly looking to stop illegal interstate alcohol rings. Attempts to stop this trafficking could become dangerous such as in this case. With the driver killed by the impact, agents were left to confiscated the illegal…