Philadelphia received help from the federal government twice in the 1920s to combat its Prohibition-fueled crime problem. The first intervention involved the appointment of General Smedley Butler (1881-1940), shown here in 1924 destroying a barrel of…
A man with two "holsters" to smuggle bootlegged liquor. In order to avoid the police, individuals like this man developed ingenious methods of carrying alcohol.
Although summoned to investigate a pair of murders, the Special August Grand Jury in 1928 carried out a judge’s instructions to probe the illicit liquor trade in Philadelphia during prohibition.