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[U.S. Customs and Immigrations officers searching the trunk of automobile for illegal drugs] – Vintage Wall Art

[U.S. Customs and Immigrations officers searching the trunk of automobile for illegal drugs], [between 1943? and 1945?] — historic photograph
[U.S. Customs and Immigrations officers searching the trunk of automobile for illegal drugs], [between 1943? and 1945?]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Two officers work through the open trunk of a car in this scene, the kind of roadside inspection customs and immigration staff carried out at land crossings when looking for narcotics. The record dates the print to between 1943 and 1945, but those dates come from an unverified caption card and should be read as approximate. During the Second World War, inspectors at ports of entry kept up these searches even as wartime traffic strained their work. The picture documents how vehicle inspections were handled at a time when automobiles increasingly carried travelers across land borders.

Created / published[between 1943? and 1945?]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Drug enforcement.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 958 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157857

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