Hand-coloured lantern slide of two small metal pot stills with coiled copper tubing standing on a table, under the printed caption Internal Revenue Bureau. Two Moonshiners' Stills; Captured in Raid. — Open the full imageJPG, 1800 × 1688 px, 0.4 MB

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

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.

Date: 1915/1917
Kind: photograph
Source: National Archives Catalog, General Records of the Department of the Treasury (RG 56), Photographs of Treasury Department Personnel, Facilities and Activities
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
NAID: 158884171
Rights: A hand-coloured lantern slide in the General Records of the Department of the Treasury (Record Group 56), series "Photographs of Treasury Department Personnel, Facilities and Activities" (NAID 516576), whose slides, the catalog says, were prepared for the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915 or the Mississippi Centennial of 1917. The item and the series both read "Use Restriction: Unrestricted." A United States government work, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The stored copy is an 1,800-pixel downsample of the catalog's scan.

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.

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