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Portrait of a man labeled R.S. [i.e. A.] Haynes.
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Portrait labeled "R.S. [i.e. A.] Haynes" (about 1920-1925)

Library of Congress Bain News Service portrait labeled "R.S. [i.e. A.] Haynes". The Library's summary, citing Flickr Commons, identifies him as Roy Asa Haynes, in charge of Prohibition enforcement.

Date
1920/1925
Kind
photograph
Source
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Retrieved
2026-10-11
Rights
The Library of Congress item record states: "No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html" Collection: George Grantham Bain Collection. Call number: LC-B2- 5491-14 [P&P]. Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ggbain-32660 (digital file from original negative).

The Library of Congress title is “R.S. [i.e. A.] Haynes.” The Library’s summary, citing the Flickr Commons project, identifies the sitter as Roy Asa Haynes (1881-1940), United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition enforcement 1920-1925. That biographical statement is the cataloger’s, not the negative’s, and has not been checked here against a federal source; this page does not rely on it for any date or office.

The photograph is a Bain News Service negative dated between about 1920 and about 1925. The copy stored here is the Library of Congress service JPEG.

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