Rows of large wooden barrels lined up inside a building. — Open the full imageJPG, 640 × 463 px, 0.0 MB

Barrels of liquor in a building (Library of Congress: "confiscated(?)")

Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph of barrels of liquor in a building. The Library's title marks "confiscated" as uncertain, and the record gives no place or date beyond 1921-1932.

Date: 1921/1932
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." Collection: National Photo Company Collection. Call number: LOT 12351-5 <item> [P&P]. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-96028 (b&w film copy neg.).

The Library of Congress title is “[Barrels of confiscated(?) liquor in building].” The question mark is the cataloger’s: the description that the liquor was confiscated is an inference, not a caption. The record gives no place and dates the item between 1921 and 1932.

The copy stored here is the Library of Congress service JPEG. The photograph is useful as a picture of stored barrels; it does not by itself document a seizure.

itemCases of whiskey confiscated by the Internal Revenue BureauLibrary of Congress National Photo Company photograph of stacked cases of whiskey that the title says were confiscated by the Internal Revenue Bureau. Dated by the Library between 1921 and 1932.