# Coast Guardsmen examine a haul of whiskey in New York Harbor

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A New York Times Paris Bureau photograph that the National Archives titles "Coast Guardsmen Examine a Haul of Whiskey in New York Harbor": sailors on a vessel alongside an open boat heaped with sacked bundles. No date is given.

The National Archives catalog title is "Coast Guardsmen Examine a Haul of Whiskey in New York Harbor," local identifier 306-NT-727-2. The catalog gives no date.

The picture shows two boats at a pier: a white vessel with sailors in white caps on deck, alongside an open boat heaped with sacks or burlap-wrapped bundles. A man in a cap sits on the edge of the open boat at the right, and a crowd stands behind a fence on the pier.

That the bundles are whiskey, and that the men are Coast Guardsmen, rests on the catalog title. No vessel, person or date is named.

## 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/16647185
- National Archives series: Photographic File of the Paris Bureau of the New York Times (NAID 541877): https://catalog.archives.gov/id/541877