(CRIME) Press photo of a Prohibition distillery raid in New

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(CRIME.) Press photo of a Prohibition distillery raid in New Jersey. Original photograph, 9 x 10¾ inches; minor wear, with worn typescript carbon caption and clipped newspaper caption laid down on verso. Newark, NJ, October 1926

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A group of prohibition agents pose in a raided distillery. On verso is a caption label from the Newark Star-Eagle: "The prohibition agents in New Jersey have gone in for photography in conjunction with raiding. Hereafter, whenever occasion arises for a raid, flashlight pictures will be made of the supper club patrons who do not move out fast enough. . . . Photo shows an agent photographing other agents at the conclusion of a raid, perhaps to note who participated in the raid, in event anything is missing when the final count is taken." The agents are a racially mixed group, including the photographer. The way they are posed is reminiscent of a jug band. The photograph was published in the New York Daily News of 24 October 1926.