New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, right, watching agents pour liquor into sewer following a raid during the height of prohibition

Item

Title

New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, right, watching agents pour liquor into sewer following a raid during the height of prohibition

Description

Published in: "Images of America" chapter of the ebook Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, 2013.
Title devised by Library staff using information from photo slug.
Photo was marked with a grease pencil during editing for publication.
Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Date, date span, or circa acceptable

1921?

File name

Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-123257 (b&w film copy neg.)
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99405169/

Sources archive, University Archives and Special Collections or Women and Leadership Archives

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Source

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Subject

Prohibition

Rights

No known restrictions on publication.

Item sets

New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, right, watching agents pour liquor into sewer following a raid during the height of prohibition