# Moonshine still confiscated by the Internal Revenue Bureau, photographed at the Treasury Department (Library of Congress)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-89706121-confiscated-still-treasury/

National Photo Company photograph of a still recently confiscated by the Internal Revenue Bureau, photographed at the Treasury Department in Washington, with a man standing beside it. Prohibition-era evidence, not a weapon.

The Library dates the photograph [between 1921 and 1932] and numbers it National Photo Company No. 4214. Its summary reads: "Man standing next to still looking at contents of glass." The caption on the print says the still was recently confiscated by the Internal Revenue Bureau and photographed at the Treasury Department.

The record places the apparatus in Washington. It does not say where the still was seized, from whom, or under which case.

**Object:** Seized still  
**Maker:** not stated  
**Date:** [1921-1932]  
**Provenance:** confiscated by the Internal Revenue Bureau; photographed at the Treasury Department  
**Appears in:** LC-DIG-ds-00136

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (National Photo Company Collection): https://www.loc.gov/item/89706121/