- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Revenuers Pose with Still
- Date of Original:
- 1930/1949
- Subject:
- Law enforcement--Georgia
United States. Internal Revenue Service
Barrels--Georgia
United States--Officials and employees
Distillation apparatus--Georgia
Men--Georgia
Trees--Georgia
Distilling, Illicit--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- During the Civil War the U.S. Congress created the Internal Revenue Service to collect taxes on liquor, tobacco, and other "luxuries." The production of moonshine was not in and of itself illegal, but attempts by producers to avoid paying the federal tax were. "Revenuers" were what moonshiners called the federal agents who sought to enforce the liquor law.
This photograph shows four federal agents standing on and near an illegal moonshine still in rural Georgia. The men wear suits and hats. Several large wooden barrels sit among trees and crudely constructed pipes. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/moonshine/m-1209/
- Rights Holder:
- Reprinted with permission from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/moonshine
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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