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Liquor Raid, 1922
Agents at work, mid-enforcement, unposed.
What
A National Photo Company press photograph documenting a federal liquor raid during the second year of nationwide Prohibition.
Why
Enforcement-era photojournalism — the flip side of every poster elsewhere in this house.
Notice
The camera catches the raid as procedure, not spectacle — the same flat documentary register as the rest of this series.
“Every bottle in this house survived one of these.”
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 24x36" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
The Lost — mark extinguished- Country
- United States
- Format
- Other
- Piece published
- Liquor raid — National Photo Company press photograph, 1922
- Source
- Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection · LCCN 2016846928
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
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The Lost — mark extinguishedConfiscated Still, 1922
Confiscated still — 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