New Prohibition Fashion
AncientFaces A little flask in your garter - such a handy way to carry your bathtub gin.
Destroying beer by the case
AncientFaces In Philadelphia, they didn't take a hatchet to one bottle - they destroyed whole cases.
Cows have shoes?
Kathy Pinna A revenooer shows off "cow shoes". Moonshiners would fasten these wood blocks to their shoes so that the agents couldn't track them to their still. Ingenious!
1920's pun - bootlegger
AncientFaces Big boots - bigger flask in 1922.
Kind face - but she carried a hatchet!
AncientFaces Carry Nation, known for entering taverns and using a hatchet to destroy bottles of alcohol.
Is someone sneaking a sip?
AncientFaces In Illinois, they confiscated a load of beer - is the man in the middle trying to sneak a sip?
Let's toast the end!
Kathy Pinna Band leader Ted Lewis and a bevy of beauties toasting the end of Prohibition in 1933.
Prohibition art?
Kathy Pinna With today's mindset, we can't tell what this art is supposed to say. Do you know?
He's gonna get you
AncientFaces Chief Prohibition Inspector - doesn't he look like he's serious about his job?
John Barleycorn's grave
AncientFaces In Connecticut, they took Prohibition seriously.
What are you - wet or dry?
How would you have voted on Prohibition?
Thrilling chase!
AncientFaces A couple of bootleggers caught after a car chase in 1922.
Drunk driving?
AncientFaces A bootlegger ran a borrowed Stutz into a tree at 70 mph - he was killed and his corn liquor was confiscated.
Hooch smelling pooch
AncientFaces Instead of bombs or drugs, dogs were used in 1922 to smell liquor - and steal it!
What a waste!
AncientFaces Pouring alcohol into NYC sewers, 1921. Were there drunk alligators in the sewer?
Home still?
AncientFaces This is a small still, most likely used for home use.
Largest still in captivity!
AncientFaces A 1922 photo of the largest still confiscated to that date.
Beer model?
Kathy Pinna This 1914 photo of a "beer model" for Gimbel's Department store stumps us. She's not holding a beer so was this a special name for a model at the time? Help!
Not a beer model!
AncientFaces She's holding a bottle of beer but she's helping destroy 80,000 pint bottles.
Nurse smugglers!
Kathy Pinna These two Navy nurses were tried for smuggling liquor into the U.S. during Prohibition.
Liquor Traffic Must Go
What a wonderful photo!
Drinking on the job?
AncientFaces Washington D.C. prohibition officers raiding a restaurant in 1923.
Exit demon rum . . .
AncientFaces A morality play in 1919: "Exit demon rum - enter drug habit."
"Prohibition Group"
AncientFaces This photo from 1922 shows that even after Prohibition was passed, people were still advocating against "demon rum".
