Browse Items (32 total)
Sort by:
"New Bureau" is Predicted
"New Bureau" is predicted to follow Prohibition Bureau
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.
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…
Agents Cautioned on Dry Searches
Agents cautioned on dry searches. Respect for Constitutional rights of citizens, especially in homes, stressed in orders. Instructed to tell truth.
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
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…
Anslinger Heads Narcotic bureau
Harry J. Anslinger, former Prohibition chief, appointed to Narcotic Bureau.
Bottles and barrel of confiscated whiskey
Bottles and barrel of confiscated bootlegged whiskey taken by Prohibition Bureau agents
Cases of whiskey confiscated by the U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau
Cases of whiskey confiscated by Internal Revenue and Prohibition agents during Prohibition.
Cow Shoes
Fashioned by rumrunners, these shoe modifications would disguise footprints in order to confuse Prohibition agents and local authorizes.