Four men standing with a very large still and bottles of liquor. — Open the full imageJPG, 640 × 468 px, 0.0 MB

"The Largest still in captivity", Washington, D.C. (11 November 1922)

Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph captioned "The Largest still in captivity", showing four named men with the largest still taken in the national capital, as the record states.

Date: 1922-11-11
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 12294, vol. 9, p. 49 <item> [P&P]. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-95475 (b&w film copy neg.).

The Library of Congress caption reads “The Largest still in captivity.” The record names Lt. O.T. Davis, Sergt. J.D. McQuade, George Fowler of the Internal Revenue Service and H.G. Bauer standing with the largest still ever taken in the national capital and bottles of liquor. It is National Photo Company No. 21285, dated 11 November 1922.

The record gives no address for the seizure. The copy stored here is the Library of Congress service JPEG.

itemMoonshine still confiscated by the Internal Revenue Bureau, shown at the Treasury DepartmentLibrary of Congress National Photo Company photograph of a confiscated moonshine still displayed at the Treasury Department in Washington, with a man looking at the contents of a glass.