# Zion City, Illinois, destroys 80,000 pint bottles of beer

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-88715937-zion-city-beer-destroyed/

Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph of the mayor of Zion City, Illinois, pouring out two bottles in what the title calls the destruction of 80,000 pint bottles of beer. Dated between 1921 and 1932.

The Library of Congress title is "Zion City, Ill., destroys 80,000 pint bottles of beer." The Library's description gives the mayor's name as W. Hurd Clendinen, with the alternate spelling Clendenin queried, and says he is pouring away two bottles. The record dates the item between 1921 and 1932 and gives no day.

The record also carries a copyright note naming Press Illustrating Service; the rights statement quoted above is the one this archive relies on. The copy stored here is the Library of Congress service JPEG.

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division: https://www.loc.gov/item/88715937/