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A portrait of each candidate vying for the presidency of the United States in 1876

A rum runner lies in wait on a dock in Sandwich, Ontario for the signal that it is clear to bring alcohol across the Detroit River to a landing plot on 17th Street. Diagram courtesy of a Detroit News Photographer.

An ingenious, anonymous man demonstrates to reporters how one can transport flasks of alcohol throughout the city during Prohibition.

An image that captures a very large traffic jam in Chicago, Illinois

Trade Magazine

Republican National Convention 1908:

An image of children on top of the roof of Hull House, gardening.

This is an article in the New York Times about the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act

Secretary of the Interior Work and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Burke with Chief Red Eagle and Chief Bacon Rind