“Air Surgeons recommendation that medicinal whiskey be made available all theatres of operation for the issue to Army Air Forces Combat crew members upon their return from serial combat missions or operations, is concurred in.” August 19, 1943.
Record Group 492: Records of Mediterranean Theater of Operations, United States Army
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![License issued to William Kentfield to sell liquor in Washington, DC, (“on condition that no sale or gift of liquor [be made] to any soldier, teamster, wagon-master, artisan, or laborer, being an employee of the United States”) 1/23/1864“Series:...](https://cdn.statically.io/img/64.media.tumblr.com/7be59713220626801281a6dfd6237e87/bd827fd5fc6de0fa-7f/s1280x1920/ad80fb3f07f4c09db76195a215811c62ebe736ed.png)
License issued to William Kentfield to sell liquor in Washington, DC, (“on condition that no sale or gift of liquor [be made] to any soldier, teamster, wagon-master, artisan, or laborer, being an employee of the United States”) 1/23/1864
Record Group 393: Records of U.S. Army Continental Commands, 1817 - 1947
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“My husband is in the habit of buying a quart of wiskey every other day from a Chinese bootlegger … We need this money for household expenses. Will you please have his place raided?,” 9/22/1931
File Unit: Seattle Conspiracy (Olmstead) Investigation, 1931 - 1935
Series: Investigative Case Files, 1924 - 1933
Record Group 56: General Records of the Department of the Treasury, 1775 - 2005
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Label for Georgia Watermelon Wine, trademark applied for 7/27/1901
Series: Case Files for Registered Product Labels , 1874 - 1940
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978
Image description: Red and pink label with an image of a green watermelon on the vine. Text reads, “DR. FRANCIS E. FREY’S / GEORGIA / WATERMELON / WINE / FRANCIS E. FREY, / Lovettsville, Loudoun Co, Va.”
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Temperance Lecture, 5/16/1886
“Here’s the Pledge, Oh, come and sign it, sign and keep it true,
Leave the cup, there’s poison in it, misery and woe.”
Record Group 58: Records of the Internal Revenue Service, 1791 - 2006
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Illustrated Map of the Tenth Prohibition District, Showing the Conditions in Each County as to Public Sentiment, Illicit Distilling and Unlawful Selling, Transporting, and Possession, 3/5/1930
File Unit: Tenth Prohibition District, Survey of the, 1929 - 1930
Series: Research Material for the “Report on Federal Prohibition Enforcement”, 1929 - 1930
Record Group 10: Records of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, 1929 - 1931
Image description: A hand-colored map of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, with each county colored in to show public sentiment, illicit distilling, unlawful selling, transportation, and possession of liquor.
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Information Letter on Labeling of Fruit Wines, 12/20/1935
Doesn’t matter who made the fruit wines–gotta make sure they’re labeled correctly.
File Unit: Regulation 476 - Alcohol, 1849 - 1851
Series: Product Inspection Files, 1906 - 1946
Record Group 88: Records of the Food and Drug Administration, 1877 - 2002
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Label for Budweiser Malt Syrup, 8/21/1920
During Prohibition, breweries turned to making alternative products. Careful with this one, though; you wouldn’t want to accidentally ferment it into beer. Or would you?
Series: Case Files for Registered Product Labels , 1874 - 1940
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978
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“Beer”
We Have It.
Call Henderson 8030
Series: Photographic File of the Paris Bureau of the New York Times, ca. 1900 - ca. 1950. Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information Agency, 1900 - 2003
The scene in Cleveland after the prohibition on beer was lifted with the enactment of the Cullen-Harrison Act, (aka the Beer-Wine Revenue Act) on April 7, 1933.
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