Prohibition Collection

No! Crayfish require these drinks!, Swedish anti-Prohibition poster, 1922
No! Crayfish require these drinks!. Swedish anti-Prohibition poster, 1922. Private Collection

Pussyfoot Johnson, between 1919 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Pussyfoot Johnson, between 1919 and c1920. Shows William Eugene "Pussyfoot" Johnson (1862-1945) who was an supporter of Prohibition and law enforcement officer

Mr. And Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Mr. And Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, 1917
Mr. And Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, 1917. Pauline Morton Sabin was an American prohibition repeal leader and Republican party official. In 1916 she married Charles H

Women's Christian Temperance Union - Mrs. Lillian Stevens And Mrs. Anna Gordon, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Women's Christian Temperance Union - Mrs. Lillian Stevens And Mrs. Anna Gordon, 1911. [American temperance advocates and social reformers: Lillian M. N

Tennessee highway sign, Cannon County, Tennessee, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tennessee highway sign. Cannon County, Tennessee. ['No Advertising on State Right of Way']

Sign at bridge between Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sign at bridge between Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas. ['The plant quarantine regulations of the United States Department of Agriculture prohibit the entry of plants

Kern County, California is largely in the hands of big landowners, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Kern County, California is largely in the hands of big landowners. Also it is a mecca for migrants from the Southwest. [Signs

Pauline Morton Sabin, 1926. Creator: Philip A de Laszlo
Pauline Morton Sabin, 1926

Atlantic City, N. J. Americas Foremost Seaside Resort - the Boardwalk and Steel
Atlantic City, N.J. Americas Foremost Seaside Resort - the Boardwalk and Steel Pier from the Breakers Hotel, c1930s. During Prohibition (1919-1933)

The destruction of Cheapside Cross and the burning of the Book of Sports, May 1643 (1903). The Cheapside Cross (or Eleanors Cross) in London was demolished on 2 May 1643

A facsimile of the order for the burning of the Book of Sports, 1643 (1903). The Declaration of Sports was a declaration of King James I of England (1566-1625), issued in 1617

A Country Practitioner about to serve an ejectment

Al Capone, 2007. Artist: Karen Humpage
Al Capone, 2007. American gangster Alphonse Gabriel Capone (1899-1947) led a crime syndicate dedicated to the illegal traffic of alcohol during the time of their prohibition in the 1920s and 1930s

The end of prohibition in America. The front cover of the L illustre Du Petit Journal. December 5, 1933, marks the end of Prohibition for the United States

Prohibition of bullfighting in the south of France, 1895. Artist: Henri Meyer
Prohibition of bullfighting in the south of France, 1895. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 15th September 1895

Notice in a railway station in German-occupied Paris, 17 July 1940. It states that entering the city without a permit from the Commandant is forbidden

Commune de Toulouse, from French Political posters of the Paris Commune, May 1871

Arrete sur la Vente des Cigares et du Tabac, from French Political posters of the Paris Commune, May 1871

Big Bogey in Ireland, 1869. Artist: Joseph Swain
Big Bogey in Ireland, 1869. The Cardinal forbids his little catholic children from joining their Protestant friends in the National School

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