Photograph of a container in which alcohol was shipped from Cleveland to Tacoma (16 April 1932)
A photograph from the Treasury's Tacoma alcohol seizure investigation file: a strapped wooden crate beside a hand truck, with a measuring stick leaning on it. The catalog says alcohol was shipped in it from Cleveland, Ohio, to Tacoma, Washington.
- Date
- 1932-04-16
- Kind
- photograph
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- NAID
- 298485
- Rights
- A document in the General Records of the Department of the Treasury (Record Group 56), series "Investigative Case Files" (NAID 298428), held at the National Archives at Seattle. The item reads "Use Restriction: Unrestricted"; the series and file unit records read "Undetermined." A federal investigative record, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The stored copy is the catalog's 600-pixel GIF, re-encoded as JPEG.
The National Archives catalog title is “Photo of Container that Alcohol was Shipped in from Cleveland, OH to Tacoma, WA,” with a production date of 16 April 1932. It is in the file unit “Tacoma Alcohol Seizure Investigation,” which the catalog says details “the investigation of the Tacoma, Washington, police department, the Mayor of Tacoma and a number of city officials for Prohibition violations.”
The photograph shows a wooden crate bound with metal straps standing on pavement beside a hand truck, with a measuring stick leaning against it; a stone wall and shrubs are behind. A photographer’s mark at the lower right is not legible enough to read with confidence. The catalog holds a second scan of the same file.
The investigation’s subjects are described in the catalog, but its outcome is not, and the allegations are not adopted here. The Tacoma memorandum of 1932 filed in this archive records charges and counter-charges from the same investigations.
