Prohibition Chemist Tests Bootleg Whiskey, 1920
Chemist G. G. Beyer, of the Internal Revenue Bureau, making the fuse oil test for coloring matter in a half pint bottle of a bootleggers ware. With the addition of fuse oil the matter used to give whiskey color separates from the other ingredients. Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide Constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. It was promoted by dry crusaders movement, led by rural Protestants and social Progressives in the Democratic and Republican parties, and was coordinated by the Anti-Saloon League. Prohibition was mandated under the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Enabling legislation, known as the Volstead Act, set down the rules for enforcing the ban and defined the types of alcoholic beverages that were prohibited. Private ownership and consumption of alcohol was not made illegal under federal law; however, in many areas local laws were more strict, with some states banning possession outright. Nationwide Prohibition ended with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, on December 5, 1933. Photographed by the National Photo Company January 14, 1920.
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