Confiscated Stills

ID: 3324
This file appears in: From Temperance to Microbrews

A local sheriff poses with confiscated stills.

Image L87-1.28849-25 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture

This file appears in: From Temperance to Microbrews

By The Spokane Historical team
Temperance activist Carrie Nation of Kansas was famous for smashing saloons with a hatchet in the days before Prohibition. Before Nation's 1910 visit to Spokane, the mayor ordered saloon-goers to leave town. Excess consumption and its impact on…