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In the art pen at Ellis Island - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows several artists identified as "Lawrence, Gainsborough, D. Teniers, Rubens, Raphael, Da Vinci, Titian, Duerer, Velasquez, Van Dyke, Reni", and the friar Girolamo Savonarola as "S", being held More

The state blacksmiths forging fetters for the Americans

Print shows the interior of a blacksmith's shop with Lord Mansfield forging the links to a chain, Lord North standing to the left holding lorgnette and, in his right hand, a paper "An act for prohibiting all tr More

Abolition frowned down. Book illustration from Library of Congress

A satire on enforcement of the "gag-rule" in the House of Representatives, prohibiting discussion of the question of slavery. Growing antislavery sentiment in the North coincided with increased resentment by so More

Smoking him out - Political cartoon, public domain image

A humorous commentary on Barnburner Democrat Martin Van Buren's opposition to regular Democratic party nominee Lewis Cass. Van Buren and his son John were active in the Free Soil effort to prevent the extensio More

Whig harmony - Political cartoon, public domain image

A severe split within the Whig ranks, between partisans of Henry Clay and those of Zachary Taylor, preceded the party's convention in June 1848. Here Horace Greeley, one of Clay's most influential northern supp More

Loco Foco candidates travelling, on the canel system

Several prospective Democratic presidential candidates travel along a canal in the "Salt River Barge," named after the proverbial river of political defeat. The passengers are (left to right): Lewis Cass, secre More

The political quadrille. Music by Dred Scott

A general parody on the 1860 presidential contest, highlighting the impact of the Dred Scott decision on the race. That controversial decision, handed down in 1857 by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, ruled that ne More

Congressional surgery. Legislative quackery, Political Cartoon

A rare anti-North satire, probably dealing with either the Crittenden Compromise or the Douglas Compromise. Proposed in December 1860 in the form of several constitutional amendments, the former called for rest More

Key to Powell & Co's. photographs of Abraham Lincoln, Hannibal Hamlin and the Senators and Representatives who voted "aye" on the resolution ... to amend the constitution of the United States so as to prohibit slavery Passed in Senate, April 8, 1864. Passed in House of Representatives, Jan. 31, 1865.

Key to composite photograph with list of names identifying legislators who voted to abolish slavery.

Woman's holy war. Grand charge on the enemy's works

The "Holy War" was the nineteenth-century crusade for temperance and prohibition, whose advocates were predominantly clergymen and women. Here a young woman in armor on a black horse leads a group of similarly More

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Little but ambitious party: if they had only let him alone, I would have done for him

"Legislature, Albany" on sign; "prohibition" on sword; man in chains possibly James Blaine; Cf. CA1-A-Rogers 8. Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1932:0029). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Co More

National Prohibition Convention, 1892

Copyright by Barnum & Cumback, Indianapolis, Indiana. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indiana Indianapolis; Conventions 1892; Photog. Index; Prohibition; Shelf.

Trying to make an April fool of him / F. Opper.

Print shows Uncle Sam dancing through a minefield of political issues, such as "Catholic Demands for part of School Funds", "Single Tax Fad", "Populism", "Prohibition Foolishness", "Women's Rights Nonsense", an More

Uncle Sam's "crazes" past and present / F. Opper.

Print shows a vignette cartoon depicting the current "craze" for "Free Silver", showing Uncle Sam riding a silver rocking horse, and participating in several fads "Past and Present", such as the "Blue Glass Cra More

National Prohibition Park, Westerleigh, borough of Richmond, Staten Island, New York City /

Aerial view to horizon. Existing buildings and residences shown pictorially. Relief shown by landform drawings. Contains cadastral map of National Prohibition Park residential subdivision showing new streets, t More

New prohibition law asked for Alaska. Washington D.C. Consumption of liquor by Indians in Alaska under the present law was "legalized murder" made increasingly bad because they were unable to judge its quality, was told to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee today. Prominent Alaskan officials and Indian educators appeared before the committee to urge that a new prohibition law be enacted by Congress to spply in Alaska. In the picture, left to right: Senator Elmer Thomas, Chairman of the Committee; Claude M. Hirst, Director of the Office of Indian affairs in Alaska; and John Collier, U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs

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The lesson of the President's journey / J.S. Pughe.

Illustration shows representatives of the "Democratic, Republican, Populist, [and] Prohibition" parties carrying a larger-than-life-sized President McKinley on a sedan chair, and waving their hats as a show of More

President McKinley taking the oath /

"This film records President McKinley taking the oath of office. The first camera position shows the seating arrangements prepared for the spectators and witnesses on the steps of the Capitol. At the time the f More

A needed change in the Senatorial lobby / J.S. Pughe.

Illustration shows a man labeled "Candidate for Senate" holding wads of cash, standing in front of a sign that states "Sale of seats to the United States Senate has been prohibited", nearby the "Senatorial Box More

A question of duty / J.S. Pughe.

Illustration shows President Theodore Roosevelt standing next to Uncle Sam who is sitting on a stool in a "U.S. Custom House", Roosevelt has his left hand on Sam's right arm and he is gesturing to the left, tow More

Panorama of beach and Cliff House /

This film is an afternoon panorama of weekend crowds at the north end of Ocean Beach, the western shore of San Francisco near the famed Cliff House. The film postdates the nearby Dutch Windmill (1902) and preda More

Said prohibition Maine to prohibition Georgia: "Here's looking at you" / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows two men, one labeled "Georgia" and the other labeled "Maine", both are holding bottles, one labeled "Orange Phosphate" and the other labeled "Cold Tea" which contain alcohol; their pockets ar More

Puck magazine cover - "Marching through Georgia" / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows a group of men and women marching under such banners as "The Lips That Touch Corn Likker Shall Never Touch Ourn", "W.C.T.U.", and "Carrie Nation Cadets", with one man carrying a small barrel More

The lost child / Ehrhart. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Illustration shows six policemen labeled "Chafin, Taft, Debs, Watson, Hisgen, [and] Bryan" gathering around a young boy labeled "Reactionary Voter" standing on "Radical Ave.", who appears confused by all the po More

Truck loads of beer enroute to Chicago, which were waylaid and captured at Zion City, Ill. ... all bottles were destroyed

Six men holding bottles of beer. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Copyright by Press Illustrating Service, New York.

The closed canteen and the open dive / Keppler.

Illustration shows an old woman labeled "Prohibition" and holding an umbrella labeled "Intolerance", standing between two sluices that power waterwheels; she is holding a board in the shape of the U.S. Capitol More

Our merchant marine, the Rip Van Winkle of the sea / Kep.

Illustration shows Rip Van Winkle, his beard long and his clothes tattered, asleep near an abandoned ship building yard, an overturned jug labeled "High Protective Tariff" at his side and a sign behind him that More

Keep off! Monroe doctrine - Drawing. Public domain image.

Uncle Sam, having spotted a man wearing a wide-brimmed hat fishing in a prohibited area of the Mexican coast, confronts him. He lifts the hat off the head of a Japanese soldier who is fishing with a rifle and More

[Golden Jubilee and fifteenth annual convention, the Anti-Saloon League of America]

J187828 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Cleveland, O. Title derived from copyright deposit records. Image duplicates LOT 5599, panorama no. 2, title information varies. Copyright deposit; Th More

Thirteenth Annual Convention of the Anti-Saloon League of Virginia, Richmond, January 21, 1914

On front: "By Thomas Sparrow, Panoramic Photographer, 7903 Decker Ave., Cleveland, O., for W. W. Foster, Richmond, Va." Gift; Ed J. Richardson; October 26, 1951.

The kidnappers / Hy Mayer ; by Hy Mayer.

Illustration shows at center, Theodore Roosevelt kidnapping the "G.O.P." elephant (this figure can be rotated 180° to show Roosevelt being kidnapped by the "G.O.P."); around this image are vignette scenes showi More

The genii of intolerance A dangerous ally for the cause of women suffrage / / Cesare.

Cartoon showing a genii "Prohibition" rising from a bottle labeled "Injustice Intolera[nce] Hypocr[isy]" tearing at a woman's banner reading "Votes for Women" as the woman flees from his clutches.

Francis E. Baldwin - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows Francis E. Baldwin (1859-1930), a Prohibition candidate for president in 1916 from Elmira, New York. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Florence S. Hyde - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows Florence S. Hyde who was secretary of the National Woman's Prohibition Federation. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Elsie Hill speaking [at street meeting in St. Paul, Minn., during Prohibition Party convention that endorsed a plank advocating a suffrage amendment, July 1916]

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Elsie Hill, standing in the back seat of an automobile that is parked at curb, speaking to a crowd of people (mostly men} standing on a sidewalk, on a street More

Whiskey - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Whiskey - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Whiskey - Public domain portrait photograph

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National Conference, World Wide Prohibition, Columbus, O., Nov. 19th-22nd, 1918

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[The sacred cider grove] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Cartoon of a gentleman on horseback at the gate of an apple orchard, talking and laughing with an old, bearded laborer. No copyright information found with item. Published caption reads: "Are those good eating More

Amer. Fed. of Labor, Prohibition demonstration, June 14, 1919

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Amer. Fed. of Labor, Prohibition demonstration, June 14, 1919

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Amer. Fed. Labor, Prohibition demonstration, June 14, 1919

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Across! / Orr. - An open book with a drawing of a man sitting on a bench

An old woman "Eliza Prohibition", carrying a baby "Constitutional Amendment", hops across ice floes labeled after U.S. states towards solid ground "Ratification"; in the background three dogs "brewer", "distill More

[Interior of a crowded bar moments before midnight, June 30, 1919, when wartime prohibition went into effect New York City]

International Newsphotograph. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Amer. Fed. of Labor Prohibition Demonstration, June 14, 1919

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[Woman seated at a soda fountain table is pouring alcohol into a cup from a cane, during Prohibition; with a large Coca-Cola advertisement on the wall], 2/13/22

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Prohibition Unit (Cow Shoes), 6/28/24

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A Pair of "bootlegs" found in the office of Lincoln C. Andrews?

Miss Hattie Klawans, clerk in the office of the prohibition czar, wearing her new Russian boots. National Photo Company Collection.

Treasury, Internal Reverend Chemist G.F. Beyer

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Treasury, Internal Reverend Chemist G.F. Beyer

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Telling the corpse he's dead / Dennis McCarthy.

An old man wearing a top hat "Prohibition", reads a broadsheet "Supreme Court Decision" while standing before a tombstone covered with cobwebs; the Supreme Court ruled against a New Jersey state law legalizing More

[Cases of whiskey confiscated by the U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau]

[New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, right, watching agents pour liquor into sewer following a raid during the height of prohibition]

Title devised by Library staff using information from photo slug. Photo was marked with a grease pencil during editing for publication. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Co More

[Barrels of confiscated(?) liquor in building]

National Photo Company Collection.

Anti Prohibition group, 1/21/24

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[Bottles and barrel of confiscated whiskey]

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Zion City, Ill., destroys 80,000 pint bottles of beer

W. Hurd Clendinen (or Clendenin?), mayor of Zion City, pouring away two bottles of beer.

[African American man carrying a case of "Four Roses" whiskey on his shoulder, possibly confiscated by the U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau]

National Photo Co., no. 4502. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

Zion City, Ill., destroys 80,000 pint bottles of beer

Mrs. Graze Knippen of Zion City holding up bottle of beer as she helps get rid of the beer. National Photo Co. Collection. Copyrighted by Press Illustrating Service, N.Y.

[Cases of confiscated(?) liquor stacked in corner of room with barred doors]

National Photo Co. Collection.

[Two men standing outdoors with small still, one of them holding up bottle of liquor]

National Photo Co. Collection. No. 3235.

Masked criminal at the grave of John Barleycorn

Holding a knife in one hand and a gun in the other, the criminal shoots at a fleeing pilgrim. He stands next to Barleycorn's tombstone embellished with skull and cross bones. Inscribed on the tombstone: Hic Ja More

[Two men of the U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau(?) carrying packages of confiscated liquor(?) past two black men]

No. 4501. National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph of Hungary, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Men standing in warehouse with cases of confiscated(?) liquor]

National Photo Co. Collection. No. 4501.

[...] to the Internat'l convention held in [Canada?] Left to right: Dr. Martha Kuppersbusch, Prof. of Political Science; Wilhelmine Lohman, Social Worker; Mrs. Tolde Strecker, Dr. Strecker, Pres. of the Nat'l Prohibition Assoc. of Germany, Mrs. Guste von Bhiecher, Pres. Womans Christian Temperance Society of Germany

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[Policeman standing alongside wrecked car and cases of moonshine]

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[Woman putting flask in her Russian boot, Washington, D.C.]

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After a thrilling chase through the busiest streets of Washington, ... a couple of bootleggers and their car come to grief at the hands of the Capitol police

National Photo Company Collection. No. 18491. The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Com More

The "Hooch hound" in action, National Photo Company, Washington DC

Man seated on pier, with pipe in his mouth, fishing on the Potomac River, as dog trained to detect liquor takes a bottle from his back pocket. National Photo Company Collection. No. 17650.

The Largest still in captivity, National Photo Company, Washington DC

Lt. O.T. Davis, Sergt. J.D. McQuade, George Fowler of Internal Revenue Service and H.G. Bauer with the largest still ever taken in the national capitol and bottles of liquor. National Photo Company Collection. No. 21285.

[Hooch Hound, a dog trained to detect liquor (as suggested to Commissioner Haynes by a prohibition agent in Colorado), sniffs at flask in back pocket of man, seated, fishing on pier on the Potomac River]

No. 17649. National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Test vote on prohibition taken in Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 1923]

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. In album: Washington, D.C., Jan. 1923 to Jan. 1924, v. 1, Herbert E. French, National Photo Company. National Photo Company Collection (Librar More

[Group of men holding bones, probably connected to "Bone dry" support of prohibition; William D. Upshaw, proponent of temperance movement, at right. U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.]

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Prohibition Vote, 2/3/23 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Ruben B. Sams, New Provincial Prohibition Chief of Eastern Pennsylvania and Southern N.J.

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[Girls counting prohibition vote taken by National Liberal Alliance, Washington, D.C.]

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. In album: Washington, D.C., Jan. 1923 to Jan. 1924, v. 1, Herbert E. French, National Photo Company. National Photo Company Collection (Librar More

A Consignment recently received from Philadelphia., Pennsylvania 749 cases of beer (18,000) bottles were today destroyed in the District of Columbia

Nine men smashing bottles in dump. Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prohibition officers raiding the lunch room of 922 Pennsylvania Ave., Wash., D.C.

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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.

Photograph shows Public Safety Director, Smedley D. "Duckboards" Butler, destroying kegs of beer with an axe.

Prohibition Unit (Cow Shoes), 6/28/24

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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

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E.C. Yellowly, Chief of general prohibition agents, 8/18/25

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W.A. Green, Chief Prohibition Inspector, 9/5/25

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Prohibition chiefs testify before Ways and Means Committee of the House

Asst. Secretary of the Treasury and prohibition czar Lincoln C. Andrews and the Commissioner of Prohibition, Roy C. Haynes outside of the House of Representatives. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

Delegation of Maryland women at Capitol on prohibition hearing

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[Representative William D. Upshaw of Georgia, a leader of the drys, standing on railing with crutch and holding umbrella, with dome of the U.S. Capitol under the umbrella

The original U.S. Capitol building, known as the "Old Capitol," was a small brick building that was completed in 1800. It served as the Capitol building until the current building was completed in the 1850s. Th More

U.S. Chamber attacks Labor Act at Capitol. Washington, D.C., June 26. B.C. Heacock, President of the Caterpillar Tractor Co. of Peoria, Ill., and Chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Committee on Manufacture, told a Senate and Education and Labor Committee today that the chamber favored amendments to the Labor Act to accomplish these purposes--to preserve the right of freedom speech, to grant the employer the right to petition the NLRB for a determination of the representatives selected by his employees for collective bargaining to prohibit coercion of employees from any course, and to repeal the closed-shop proviso'

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[Representative John Phillip Hill of Maryland ... determined...to keep the country wet]

Man pouring water from water can onto globe. National Photo Company Collection. No. 27947

Women from New Jersey at Capitol to prohibition hearing, 4/12/26

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Stop when you see this sign. This is the new insignia plate the Bureau of Prohibition has adopted for use by prohibition agents in stopping suspected automobiles. In the photograph, from left to right, are; Prohibition Administrator Ames Woodcock, H.M. Lucious, secretary of the Automobile Club of Maryland, and Ernest M.Smith, vice- president of the A.A.A.

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[Group: Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform]

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[Woman holding poster "Abolish Prohibition!"]

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[Women and ballot box: Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform]

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Bishop Cannon and Women Drys. Bishop James Cannon, Jr., Generalissimo of the organized dry forces, snapped at the Capitol today as thousands of members of the Women's National Committee for Law Enforcement gathered to demand continuance of prohibition. 4/18/32

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Prominent society women to lead women's wet organization for next year. The social register is well represented in the slats of officers for the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform which concluded their meeting in Washington today. In the photograph, left to right: Mrs. William C. Potter, New York, National Treasurer; Mrs. Archibald B. Roosevelt, New York, National Secretary; Mrs. Edward S. Moore, New York Member of Executive Committee; Miss Maude Wetmore, Rhode Island, National Vice Chairman, Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, New York, National Chairman; Mrs. William B. Mason, Washington, D.C., National Vice Chairman; Mrs. Pierre S. Dupont, Delaware, National Vice Chairman; Mrs. E. Roland Harriman, National Finance Chairman

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Mrs. Brown at Child Labor hearing. Washington, D.C., May 20. Mrs. La Rae Brown of Boston, Massachusetts., Director of the National League of Women Voters appeared before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee today. She stated that she was in favor or Sen. Alden W. Barkley's bill which would prohibit the interstate shipment of goods made by child labor, 5/20/1937

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Oil executive predicts suffocated marketing competition if Gillette bill is passed. Washington, D.C., April 21. Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, J. Howard Pew, President of the Sun Oil Co., declared that passage of the Gillette Bill prohibiting marketing of petroleum products by producers or refiners would suffocate marketing competition, 4/21/38

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Movie star before senate committee. Washington, D.C., April 3. The S.R.O. sign was hung out today at the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee Hearing as Robert Montgomery, movie star, appeared to express his opposition to a bill designed to prohibit "Block booking" and "Blind selling" two trade practices which curb the discretion that a movie house owner has in selecting pictures to be shown in his community. Speaking as a former President of the Screen Actors Guild, Montgomery told the Committee that the Guild and their lawyers have come to the very definite conclusion that if the bill should become a law it would cut in half the production schedules of the Motion Picture Industry. 4-3- 39

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