Free Prohibition Era Photos on Smuggling and Prohibition from the National Archives
by Ellen NicKenzie Lawson
These free photos are from the National Archives. Most of its Prohibition photos are kept among photo records at the Archives location in Bethesda, MD. These below were found by Lawson during research among 90 boxes of Coast Guard Records for the 1920s. Those records are located in the downtown Archives in D.C. Most of these photos are included in Smugglers, Bootleggers, and Scofflaws: Prohibition and New York City (2013). Many of these photos have never been seen before.
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Photos From National Archives
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Surf near Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
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Guardsmen sitting in wicker chairs on deck of Surf after its seizure
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Nautical Chart showing various locations of Mazel Tov on Rum Row according to Coast Guard
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Coast Guard destroyer chasing Gaspe Fisherman on Rum Row
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Al capone’s Alpaca on Rum Row next to larger ship.
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Coast Guard Drawing of Alpaca
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Julito at dock in Havana and bound for N. J. Highlands
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Ralph Bitters, woman friend, and Captain Jack Duran of Julito on beach in Cuba or N.J.
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Friends and associates of Ralph Bitters in Havana
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Also, friends and associates of Ralph Bitters in Havana
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Woman friend of Bitters and a sailor aboard Julito
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Honduran registered schooner Al Smith, named for N.Y. Governor in 1928 presidential election who ran as a Wet and lost.
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Mary of New Bedford seized and then docked at Ellis Island
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Drawing of false bottom of Mary of New Bedford
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George Cochran docked in Hudson River for search of herring cargo
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Aerial photo of two [rum?] submarines off Croton Point, Hudson River, 1924
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Seized cargo and spectators at dock in lower Manhattan.
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Guardsmen overseeing seized liquor with crowd watching in background behind iron gate.
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Scene at docks after seizure of a rum crew
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Captured smugglers, policemen, and schooner
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Mug shot of Benjamin Feldman, boss of lower Broadway gang smuggling via Chesapeake Bay
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Mug shot of Whippoorwill’s Captain Axel Ohlsen of Brooklyn working for Feldman gang
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Mug shot of Engineer Heonss, of Whippoorwill
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Mug shot of Harwood Park of Long Island City, radioman for Feldman gang
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Arnold Rothstein, head of Broadway Mob, photo courtesy of Library of Congress.