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Drawing of a Still, U.S. Bureau of Prohibition

The moonshine still, as the government actually saw it: a diagram.

What

A technical schematic of an illicit still, filed as evidence in a U.S. Bureau of Prohibition case (Seattle office, Record Group 56) — the honest answer to "where is the moonshine imagery."

Why

Moonshine, being illicit, left no advertising to collect — this is the closest real, checkable record of it in this house: not art, evidence.

Notice

The plainness of a diagram doing the work a poster would elsewhere — no romance, no figure, no brand, just the mechanism.

“The still had no marketing budget. It had a case number.”

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: Drawing of a still — U.S. Bureau of Prohibition case-file exhibit, 1930
Source: U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 56 · NARA NAID 298446

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Scan: U.S. National Archives, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.

Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — a work of the U.S. federal government. Gated by the piece’s own publication year, never a brand’s founding year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-16. Case-file range is 1924–1933; 1930 used as a conservative dated placement. PD-USGov basis (a federal work product) applies regardless of exact year within that range.

This brand was no longer in the market. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.