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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10995]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An Elaborate Smell-Less Still is the target of Frank Lynch, chief of the sheriff's raiding squad, left, and Fred Hall, alcohol tax unit. They put the ax to this giant 110-gallon corn liquor still confiscated Wednesday near NE 65 and Bryan. Taken into custody was Wilson Vaughn, 28. Destroyed with the still were 500 gallons of mash, 350 pounds od sugar, 20 pounds of yeast and one-half gallon of liquor. Lynch called the st… more
Date: 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10990]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Lot Of Whiskey went up in smoke (center) Monday when Oklahoma County sheriff's deputies - with an assist from M-Sgt. C. R. Sommerdorf, left, of the 2701st Explosive Ordance Disposal Unit at Tinker Air Force Base, blew up two 1,000-gallon illegal whisky cooking vats east of Arcadia"
Date: December 30, 1963
Creator: Foster, Ray
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10992]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here's how 6,000 pints of sized whisky-$20,000 worth-went down the drain early Thanksgiving day. The steel bed of the pickup truck served not only as a bin for broken glass but also the means of breaking the bottles. Shown left to right, heaving bottles at the truck, are Vigil McCann, jail trusty; George Fowler, deputy sheriff; M. L. Dodson, another trusty, and Guy Bauguess, a deputy."
Date: November 25, 1948
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10989]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sommerdort used plastic explosive to destroy the vats, too large to be moved or destroyed in the conventional manner. At right is Deputy Frank Lynch surveying damage done by the explosive. William Golson, 26, was charged with violation of the Internal Revenue Act and released on bond."
Date: December 30, 1963
Creator: Foster, Ray
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10991]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Lot Of Whiskey went up in smoke (center) Monday when Oklahoma County sheriff's deputies - with an assist from M-Sgt. C. R. Sommerdorf, left, of the 2701st Explosive Ordance Disposal Unit at Tinker Air Force Base, blew up two 1,000-gallon illegal whisky cooking vats east of Arcadia. Sommerdort used plastic explosive to destroy the vats, too large to be moved or destroyed in the conventional manner. At right is Deputy Fra… more
Date: December 30, 1963
Creator: Foster, Ray
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10993]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Deputies probed two nice grass patches in the littered backyard of W. F. Russell, 621 S Pennsylvania, Friday and unearthed two whisky caches. Among the tall ragweeds, rags and jumble of wood and cans, the well tended, watered patches of bermuda looked out of place. Close inspection showed small wire loops staking up in the center. L. H. Kolb and Gleen Roberts, liquor raiders, tugged on the wires and tim cans full of eart… more
Date: July 1, 1949
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10998]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sheriff Newt Burns, left, took Mort Pottlitzer jr., Louisville, Ky., on a tour through one of Oklahoma county's "temporary" liquor vaults in the county jail Tuesday. The Kentucky man was apparently the high bidder of four who tried to buy some of the county stock of contraband liquor Tuesday. one of the unsuccessful bidders, however, is threatning to halt the sale because the sheriff refused to make the bids public."
Date: August 22, 1950
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10996]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Deputy sheriff Frank Lynch and three federal alcohol tax unit investigators were outrun by a trio of "moonshine" still operators near Jones Thursday but managed to confiscate their elaborate set-up and 1,000 gallons of mash. Lynch said the officers closed in on the still site from four direction but were spotted about a block away by the lookout. "We ran one of them clear out of his shoes," the deputy laughed, "but they d… more
Date: June 8, 1955
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10997]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a storage room through the door, a guy in a suit moving a large piece, many bottles and boxes, and more.)"
Date: February 20, 1947
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10988]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Prayers went up here Tuesday as legal whisky went on sale in Oklahoma for the first time. "Onward Christian soldier…Marching as to war…With the cross of Jesus…Going on before…" While hundreds of whisky customers stood in line Tuesday to make their first legal purchase in Oklahoma, a smaller group at Women's Christian Temperance Union headquarters here prayed for their salvation. They opened and closed the rally… more
Date: September 1, 1959
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10994]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Glen Roberts, left, and Joe Tyler, deputy sheriffs, are shown loading up packages of liquor found in a house in the 700 block N Meridian. They counted 1,863 pints as the haul was checked into the courthouse for storage. Figured at retail prices, that takes about $10,000 of whisky off the city market, deputies estimated."
Date: January 20, 1950
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.11000]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Voters Have Corked Whisky in 50 years of Oklahoma election history, as shown by this sampling of "morning after" newspaper headlines. Repeal, which will be judges at the polls again Tuesday, was defeated in one form or another by a 21,077 majority in 1910; by 123,789, in 1936; by 84,159 in 1940, and by 55,400 in 1949. First big battle, involving the same issues hotly argued on both sides on recent weeks, came when Sta… more
Date: 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10999]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Larking Lamb, left, and Sheriff Bob Turner inspect bottles removed from the stack at right. Sheriff Bob Turner currently is in possession of the largest single cache of whisky to be found in Oklahoma. He conservatively estimates the lot in the terms of several hundred cases. And he's going to hang on to it, no matter how many tongues swivel and dry up as the trickle of booze from surrounding wet states is mop… more
Date: February 25, 1959
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.11001]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Liquor Inventory as the Chandelle Club lasted into Thursday after a team of detectives and assistant county attorneys raided the club Wednesday night. Officers described the liquor confiscation as the largest since prohibition days. Here, two club employes help tag liquor behind the bar. Some 800 bottles were found in a warehouse above the club, police said. The officers said liquor was being purchased by the drink." more
Date: May 19, 1965
Creator: Heaton, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0540]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Governor Edmondson had comparatively little trouble getting the state senate to vote for a referendum on the article in the state constitution that makes Oklahoma dry."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0539]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Ever since it became a state in 1907 Oklahoma has been dry, and despite six votes on the liquor issue, it remains one of the only two dry states (Mississippi is the other) in the country."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0546]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Hip-pocket highballs are toted around Oklahoma City these days in a dazzling assortment of containers stemming from the old roaring Twenties flask."
Date: 1959
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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