Detroit police inspecting equipment found in a clandestine underground brewery (Prohibition era)
A New York Times Paris Bureau photograph that the National Archives titles "Detroit police inspecting equipment found in a clandestine underground brewery during the prohibition era." The catalog gives no date or address.
- Date
- unknown
- Kind
- photograph
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- NAID
- 541928
- 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." The Paris stamp is not visible in the digital image. 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 TIFF.
The National Archives catalog titles this photograph “Detroit police inspecting equipment found in a clandestine underground brewery during the prohibition era.” Local identifier 306-NT-170365c; its select-list identifier is “AMCITY #126.” The catalog gives no date, and none is claimed here beyond the catalog’s “prohibition era.”
The picture shows uniformed police in peaked caps, and men in caps and hats, beside a large wooden vat and machinery: a pump with a motor, a valve wheel and pipes. One man in a flat cap and overcoat crouches at the motor.
The catalog does not name the police, the owners or the place, and this page does not. That the equipment was “found in a clandestine underground brewery” is the catalog title’s description.
