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[Test vote on prohibition taken in Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 1923] – Historic Print

[Test vote on prohibition taken in Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 1923], 1923 Jan. 12. — historic photograph
[Test vote on prohibition taken in Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 1923], 1923 Jan. 12.. Historic photograph from the Washington DC collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Test vote on prohibition taken in Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 1923], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Test vote on prohibition taken in Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 1923]

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The caption dates this photograph to January 12, 1923, when Washington residents took part in a test vote on prohibition. The District of Columbia was not a state, and its residents had no voting members in Congress, so a poll like this offered a way to gauge local opinion on the Eighteenth Amendment, which had taken effect in 1920. The photograph comes from the National Photo Company, a commercial studio that documented Washington street life and public events through the 1920s. Its catalog card places it in an album covering January 1923 to January 1924, so it captures a moment when the national debate over Prohibition was playing out in the capital.

Created / published1923 Jan. 12.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. In album: Washington, D.C., Jan. 1923 to Jan. 1924, v. 1, Herbert E. French, National Photo Company. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). No. 22028.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 969 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117423

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