Bureau of Prohibition agent's memorandum of a manufacture and possession case (18 June 1930)
National Archives printed Bureau of Prohibition form, filled in by typewriter, summarizing a case for manufacture and possession against an unidentified violator, listing a seized 600-gallon still and 4,800 gallons of mash.
- Date
- 1930-06-18
- Kind
- case-file
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- NAID
- 16972723
- Rights
- The National Archives catalog lists this item's Use Restriction status as "Unrestricted." Federal records are public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.
The National Archives catalog titles this “Agent’s Memorandum of Sale Manufacture or Possession Case.” The printed Bureau of Prohibition form, filled in by typewriter, summarizes a case against an unidentified violator for manufacture and possession. It lists a seized 600-gallon still, a 300-gallon still, 4,800 gallons of mash, 70 cases and 25 gallons of whiskey, a boiler and copper coil, with the evidence destroyed at the scene except for samples sent to a U.S. chemist in Baltimore. The form’s fields for the place of the seizure are not legible on the first page.
The item is in Record Group 10 (National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement), research material for the “Report on Federal Prohibition Enforcement.” Only page 1 of 2 is stored, resized from a 7 MB image.
