Sale 2466 - Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks, February 15, 2018

267 c   (PROHIBITION) A group of 40 photographs depicting temperance activities and bar interiors. Including patrons of speakeasies and pubs; federal agents confiscating beer, wine, and spirits; and rallies both for and against anti-alcohol legislation. Silver prints (40), the images measuring approximately 8x10 inches (20.3x35.4 cm.), and the reverse, and half slightly smaller, each with various press agency labels, hand stamps, and notations, in pencil and ink, on verso. 1920s-30s; some printed later [4,000/6,000]