An automobile decked out with signs for repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment (May 1932)
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.
- Date
- 1932-05-01
- Kind
- photograph
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- NAID
- 16647184
- Rights
- The National Archives catalog marks this item "Use Restriction: Unrestricted." Its parent series, the Photographic File of the Paris Bureau of the New York Times (NAID 541877, Record Group 306, Records of the U.S. Information Agency), carries the note: "Prints stamped New York Times with the Paris address are presumed to be in the public domain, as are the glass negatives of original photographs. Copyright restrictions may apply to all other prints and copy negatives." This archive relies on the item-level "Unrestricted" pending a check of the physical print. The stored copy is an 1,800-pixel downsample of the catalog's scan.
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.
