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The Ohio whiskey war - the ladies of Logan singing hymns in front of barrooms in aid of the temperance movement
This wood print printed in a newspaper portrayed the escalating tensions between women's activist groups and bar owners.
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.
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.
Small group of men dumping wine from barrels into hole in ground
After confiscation Prohibition agents would often destroy the material if not needed for any prosecution.
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.
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.