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"Report of the Comptroller of the Treasury...," Nashville, Tennessee, November 5, 1847
Library Collection
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Poster of Jack Daniel's Distillery No. 1, Lynchburg, Tennessee, n.d.
Library Photograph Collection, Oversize
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George Dickel Distillery, Tullahoma, Tennessee, August 17, 1959
RG 82, Department of Conservation Photograph Collection
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George Dickel Distillery, Tullahoma, Tennessee, August 17, 1959
RG 82, Department of Conservation Photograph Collection
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Charles Nelson letterhead, Nashville, Tennessee, ca. 1880s
Courtesy of David R. Sowell
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Green Brier Whiskey bottle (reverse), Greenbrier, Tennessee, ca. 1906
Courtesy of David R. Sowell
Photograph by William M. Thomas
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Charles Nelson's obituary, Daily American, Nashville, Tennessee, December 14, 1891
Newspaper Microfilm Collection
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Swor's Distillery, Buchanan, Tennessee, n.d.
According to the Internal Revenue Service annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, there were 288 registered distilleries in Tennessee that year, and they had 1,537,453 gallons of their distilled spirits gauged for taxation.
Library Photograph Collection
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Letter [front] from Robert B. Cheatham requesting permission to distill 100 barrels of whiskey, Nashville, Tennessee, October 5, 1864
Washington Family Papers
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Letter [back] from Robert B. Cheatham requesting permission to distill 100 barrels of whiskey, Nashville, Tennessee, October 5, 1864
Washington Family Papers
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Amendment to Senate Bill No. 11, Nashville, Tennessee, January 19, 1909
RG 60, General Assembly Original Bills, etc.
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Amendment to Senate Bill No. 11, Nashville, Tennessee, January 19, 1909
RG 60, General Assembly Original Bills, etc.
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Hartman's Saloon on 3rd Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, ca. 1900
Library Photograph Collection
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Silver Dollar Saloon, Nashville, Tennessee, 1907
Library Photograph Collection
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Saloon on 4th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, 1908
Library Photograph Collection
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4th Avenue, looking north from Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, ca. 1910s
The Southern Turf Saloon and the Climax Bar
are on the right.
Library Photograph Collection
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Articles about the ratification of the 18th Amendment, Nashville Tennessean, Nashville, Tennessee, January 1919
Newspaper Microfilm Collection
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"Nation 'Dry' Tonight as Stringent Law Begins," Nashville Tennessean, Nashville, Tennessee, January 16, 1920
Newspaper Microfilm Collection
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"Prohibition Act Is Void, New Jersey Suit Claims," Nashville Tennessean, Nashville, Tennessee, March 5, 1920
Newspaper Microfilm Collection
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"Prohibition Law Is Held Valid by Supreme Court," Nashville Tennessean, Nashville, Tennessee, June 8, 1920
Newspaper Microfilm Collection
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"Moonshine on the Hills of Tennessee" sheet music, 1927
Archives Manuscript Collection
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Tennessee Centennial Exposition, Nashville, Tennessee, 1897
The two log cabins on the right contained a working still. The
building behind the cabins has an advertisement for the William Gerst Brewing Company on the side of it.
Library Photograph Collection
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"Moonshine Whisky. A Crowd of East Tennessee Mountaineers Who Come to the Centennial," Nashville American, Nashville, Tennessee, April 29, 1897
Newspaper Microfilm Collection
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Charlie and Willie Hall with their moonshine still Clay County, Tennessee, ca. late 1920s
Looking Back at Tennessee Collection
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Mountain tea still in operation Doe Valley, Johnson County, Tennessee, ca. 1920s
Looking Back at Tennessee Collection
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Members of the Sheriff's Department and Women's Christian Temperance Union posing with a confiscated still, Loudon County, Tennessee, ca. 1920s
Looking Back at Tennessee Collection
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Sheriff Gather Hinson after raiding a still Hohenwald, Tennessee, 1960
Looking Back at Tennessee Collection
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Homer Copeland and Joe Colagross at a still belonging to W. L. Hogue, Maury or Lewis County, Tennessee, ca. 1940
Looking Back at Tennessee Collection
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Wildcat moonshine still Hillsboro, Tennessee, 1943
Looking Back at Tennessee Collection
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"The Mugs We Met in Hot Springs," Hamilton County, Tennessee, ca. 1905
Looking Back at Tennessee Collection
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Four men at a moonshine still on the rear of Fredonia Mountain, Little Brush Creek, Sequatchie County, Tennessee, ca. 1900
"The man whose face is not scratched out was already wanted for murder, so he didn't care."
Looking Back at Tennessee Collection
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Confiscated moonshine still on the back of a truck, Dunlap, Tennessee, ca. 1920s
Looking Back at Tennessee Collection
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Melvin Long guarding his still Clay County, Tennessee, ca. 1930s
Looking Back at Tennessee Collection
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Two men destroying a still Rockdale, Tennessee, ca. 1930s
Looking Back at Tennessee Collection
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Sheriff Henry Barker and Deputy Jim Taylor Stewart with a confiscated still in front of the Sequatchie County Jail, Dunlap, Tennessee, ca. 1920
Looking Back at Tennessee Collection
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Men at an illegal still Chilhowee Mountain, McMinn County, Tennessee, 1926
Looking Back at Tennessee Collection
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Pardon of James Bowers, Nashville, Tennessee, November 13, 1920
Looking Back at Tennessee Collection
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State v. Sam Waters, Blount County, Tennessee, 1932
RG 170, Supreme Court Trail Cases
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State v. Sam Waters (excerpts), Blount County, Tennessee, 1932
RG 170, Supreme Court Trail Cases
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State v. Akos Madjernick and Charles Madjernick Jr. (excerpts), Knox County, Tennessee, 1935
RG 170, Supreme Court Trial Cases
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"Dry Agent Killed While Destroying a Still," Nashville Tennessean, Nashville, Tennessee, June 14, 1920
Newspaper Microfilm Collection
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"Deaths from 'Moonshine' May Exceed War Toll," Nashville Tennessean, Nashville, Tennessee, October 12, 1920
Newspaper Microfilm Collection
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