Coast Guardsmen examine a haul of whiskey in New York Harbor
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.
- Date
- unknown
- Kind
- photograph
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- NAID
- 16647185
- 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 “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.
