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Liquor Raid, September 1922

Policemen and the haul, stacked for the photographer.

What

A National Photo Company glass negative captioned Liquor raid, 9/23/22, held by the Library of Congress.

Why

The house holds the raid of October 1922 from the same series. This is three weeks earlier.

Notice

The glass jugs stacked at the officers' feet, and the cracked emulsion at the right edge of the plate.

“Another Saturday in the dry years.”

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

Artist: National Photo Company
Country: United States
Format: Other
Piece published: Liquor raid, 9/23/22, glass negative, 1922
Source: Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection · LOC npcc.07064

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Scan: Library of Congress; no known restrictions. 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 2026-11-01. Published 1922, before the 1930 cutoff; maker National Photo Company Collection; Commons reads Public domain with {{LOC-image}} {{LOC-meta}} {{PD-National Photo Company}} {{PD-US-no notice}} {{SDC-PD-US}}. Mark status dead is the registrar's reading of an old mark; no trademark search was run, so confirm before launch.

This brand was extinguished by Prohibition in 1920. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.