Illicit still, Craven County, North Carolina: barrels under a pipe (30 November 1948)
A third Coast Guard frame of the Craven County still of November 1948: stained barrels joined by pipes under a horizontal pipe hung with a cloth, among tree trunks at night or in deep shade.
- Date
- 1948-11-30
- Kind
- photograph
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- NAID
- 205590829
- Rights
- A photograph in the Records of the U.S. Coast Guard (Record Group 26), series "Photographs of Activities, Facilities, and Personalities" (NAID 513164), file unit "Prohibition Era 1924; Radio; Regattas & Parades; Refugees." The item reads "Use Restriction: Unrestricted." The series note says: "Fewer than one percent of photographs in this series are credited to commercial sources, and may have copyright or other use restrictions." No commercial credit appears on this item; a Coast Guard photograph is a United States government work, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The stored copy is an 1,800-pixel downsample of the catalog's scan.
The National Archives catalog title is “Illicit still,” local identifier 26-G-11-30-48(3), dated 30 November 1948, with the same description as the other two frames: an illicit distillery “located by the Coast Guard and Alcohol Tax Unit in Craven County, North Carolina.” The print shows stained wooden barrels among thin tree trunks, joined by pipes to a horizontal pipe overhead from which a coil of rope and a cloth hang; the background is dark.
No person, arrest or exact location is named in the record, and this page states none.
