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- Collection: The Prohibition Era
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Red Byron Car
The car driven by Red Byron, who won the first NASCAR championship under Raymond Parks
Bootlegger Car Chase
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
Vine Glo ad
An advertisement for Vine Glo, a brick of grape concentrate that, when dissolved and left to ferment, made wine.
A typical scene of New Yorkers paying obsequities to John Barleycorn on January 16, 1920
John Barleycorn, a personification of whiskey, was given funerals by wets and drys alike when Prohibition went into effect.
Government Officers Destroy an Illicit Moonshine Still
The photograph shows government officials destroying a moonshine still
Postcard: "Why I Hate the Liquor Traffic"
A postcard with a poem by J. Frank Hanley, governor of Indiana advocating for the Temperance movement