Prohibition Photos (Click on photos to see description)

PROHIBITION LIQUOR RUNNERS

Loading Gordon’s Gin aboard the Tomoka in the Bahamas, c1921.

DAISY SIMPSON (Click on image to see more about Daisy)

SMUGGLING BOOZE (Click on image to see more)

Indiana Anti-Saloon League (Click on photo to read more)

1920's Flappers (Click on picture to see more)

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Alcohol is poured away into a New York sewer during the prohibition era, circa 1920

Al Capone Tax Evasion Trial, circa 1932 (Click photo for more)

Al Capone (Click here see more)

Al Capone at federal trial in Chicago, Circa 1932

Dunagan Moonshine Still IClick on photo)

Champagne at the Signing of the 21st Amendment (Click to read more)

Rushing the Growler (Click to see more)

Al Capone Fishing by the Docks 1939 (Click for more)

Al Capone just before being jailed at Alcatraz (Click for more)

Internal Revenue Service poster, Cir. 1930 (Click for more)

Eliot Ness (Click for more)

Farewell 18th Amendment (Click for more)

Gertrude (Cleo) Lythgoe

The Original Growlers

1926 Flapper With Flask

"Flapper" flouts the Volstead Act

Bucket Boy

IZZY & MOE

Rushing the Growler

Oil rig workers in Bayonne, N.J., “rush the growler” on their lunch hour in 1909.

Prohibition prompted a surge in illegal moonshine production across the US in the 1920s and early 1930s

An Internal Revenue Service agent scrutinizes the contents of a moonshine still during the Prohibition era.

MoonShine bust

The real Eliot Ness and his team

George Gonzales’ Restaurant & Bar

Detroit Liquor raid

Alcohol, discovered by Prohibition agents during a raid on an illegal distillery, pours out of upper windows of three–story storefront in Detroit during Prohibition.

Listening to the Roar of 1920s New York

Dayton Liquor Squad Prepares to Bust a Still circa 1920s

Barrels of beer emptied into the sewer by authorities during prohibition in America.

New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, right, watches agents pour liquor into sewer following a raid of a distillery

Prohibition's "King of Rum Row" - Bill McCoy (The Real McCoy)

Infamous Eliot Ness quote

Celebrations for the repeal of Prohibition in bars and former speakeasies

Going to their work

Bootleggers and Baptists

Californian police agents dump illegal alcoholin 1925, Prohibition-era photo courtesy Orange County Archives.

St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

The Short-Lived Amendment: Prohibition

The Real McCoy

Happy Repeal Day!

Sneak a Drink! Women-Prohibition

The "Family Entrance"

Alice Clarke, 3 April 1916

Alice Clarke, 3 April 1916
Convicted of selling liquor without a licence. Alice Clarke was an entrepreneur who took advantage of restrictive liquor regulations, which forced pubs to close at 6pm. As a “sly grogger” she sold high-priced alcohol from a private residence. Clarke’s arrest came only weeks after the legislation was introduced. Aged 42.

Anti-Saloon League rally

We Want Beer

Where you can drink on the streets