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Photo of a sign as you enter Chuckey, in Greene County, Eastern Tennessee

Photograph of an ostrich running

A police photo of alleged members of the Sugar House Gang (aka The Purple Gang)

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

Members of a "Jewish Battalion," pose for a photograph before leaving for the First World War. The young men are most likely members of the Jewish Legion, who actively recruited in Detroit in 1918.

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.

A police mug shot of members of the Purple Gang, identified as "Group 135." Including two of the founding brothers.

Worker housing in the town of Pullman, Illinois, 1890.

A child's ticket for the 1893 world fair

African American children learning about Thanksgiving, with model log cabin on table