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Confiscated Still, 1922
The apparatus, seized and photographed, no editorializing needed.
What
A National Photo Company press photograph of a confiscated moonshine still — plain documentary record, part of a wire-service series covering early Prohibition enforcement.
Why
This is the closest this house can honestly get to picturing moonshine itself: not the act, just the machine left behind.
Notice
The total absence of drama in the framing — this was routine enough by 1922 to be just another assignment.
“The law found the still. The house never advertised.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
The Lost — mark extinguished- Country
- United States
- Format
- Other
- Piece published
- Confiscated still — National Photo Company press photograph, 1922
- Source
- Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Scan: Library of Congress, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (piece published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the piece’s own publication year, never a brand’s founding year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-16.
This brand was no longer in the market. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.
From The Dry Years
The Lost — mark extinguishedLiquor Raid, 1922
Liquor raid — National Photo Company press photograph
The Lost — mark extinguishedDestroying Liquor, 1923
Destroying liquor — National Photo Company press photograph
The Lost — mark extinguishedE. C. Yellowly, Chief of General Prohibition Agents, 1925
E.C. Yellowly, Chief of gen. prohibition agents — National Photo Company press photograph
The Lost — mark extinguishedDrawing of a Still, U.S. Bureau of Prohibition
Drawing of a still — U.S. Bureau of Prohibition case-file exhibit
A house of the Provenance family