# An automobile decked out with signs for repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment (May 1932)

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A New York Times Paris Bureau photograph of an open car hung with flags and banners for repeal, driving past a crowd. The catalog dates it 1 May 1932.

The National Archives catalog title is "An Automobile Decked Out with Signs and Banners Supporting the Repeal of the 18th Amendment." Local identifier 306-NT-727B-172-065c; the catalog gives 1 May 1932 as the production date.

The picture shows an open car of an early model hung with flags and pennants, passing a crowd on the sidewalk. The painted signs are partly cut off; legible fragments read "...THE GOOD OLD DAYS," "...OD BEER PAID TAX" and "...ETZ HAVE WINE," and "BEER" is painted on the radiator and a headlamp.

The catalog gives no place and names no one. The signs are quoted only as far as they can be read.

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog, Records of the U.S. Information Agency (RG 306), Photographic File of the Paris Bureau of the New York Times: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/16647184
- National Archives series: Photographic File of the Paris Bureau of the New York Times (NAID 541877): https://catalog.archives.gov/id/541877