# Internal Revenue Bureau: two moonshiners' stills captured in a raid (Treasury lantern slide, about 1915)

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A hand-coloured Treasury lantern slide captioned "Internal Revenue Bureau. Two Moonshiners' Stills; Captured in Raid": two small metal pot stills with coiled tubing on a table.

The National Archives catalog title is "Internal Revenue Bureau – Two moonshiners' stills: captured in raid," local identifier 56-AT-68. The printed caption on the slide reads "INTERNAL REVENUE BUREAU. TWO MOONSHINERS' STILLS; CAPTURED IN RAID." It shows two small metal pot stills with coiled tubing standing on a table.

The slide names no raid, place or person. The catalog gives no date; the series was prepared for the exhibitions of 1915 or 1917, which is the basis for the date span here. The caption credits the capture to the Internal Revenue Bureau. If the series date holds, the slide predates national Prohibition; this page does not connect the stills to any later case.

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog, General Records of the Department of the Treasury (RG 56), Photographs of Treasury Department Personnel, Facilities and Activities: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/158884171
- National Archives series: Photographs of Treasury Department Personnel, Facilities and Activities (NAID 516576): https://catalog.archives.gov/id/516576