A Drink for New Year’s Eve
Douglas County sheriffs after a raid on an illegal still. Ca. 1922.
New Year's Eve in the 1920s saw Nebraskans unable to legally include alcohol in their ...
Prohibition
What We Found
Timeline Tuesday: Bootleggers’ Carnival
The passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed the manufacture and sale of liquor nationwide, but statewide prohibition was already in effect ...
Bootleggers’ Carnival
The passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed the manufacture and sale of liquor nationwide, but statewide prohibition was already in effect ...
Plenty of Beer in Kearney
Readers of the Kearney Daily Hub on August 16, 1930, must have been startled to read that during the hot summer days, there was “Plenty of Beer to be Had in Kearney and ...
Students and the Saloon
Although dating from the 1870s, the city of Lincoln’s preoccupation with the prohibition issue quickened in the first decade of the twentieth century. With the failure ...
Try These Substitutes for Brandy
This undated photograph depicted William Young’s saloon in Omaha. NSHS RG2341-1266
Readers of The Nebraska Issue (Lincoln), official organ of the ...
The Prohibition Party’s 1920 Dream Ticket: W. J. Bryan and Billy Sunday
Prohibition was the law of the land by 1920, but the Prohibition Party was still uneasy. As the presidential campaign season got underway, they feared that neither a ...
Free Speech and Temperance: Rosewater vs. Gougar
Edward Rosewater. NSHS RG2411.PH0-4772-2
A wave of temperance feeling during the late 1880s (promoted by “dry” societies, churches, and the Prohibition ...
Flashback Friday: A District Judge with No Law Degree Crushes Nebraska Organized Crime
Official portrait of Judge Joseph William Woodrough
In 1897, a twenty-four-year-old attorney came to Omaha to start his career in earnest. He lacked a law ...
Timeline Tuesday: Nebraskans’ Booze Hiding Spots
May 1, 1917, the first day of statewide prohibition in Nebraska. NSHS RG0813-40
The passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Prohibition in Douglas County
The Untouchables of Douglas County. In today’s Throwback Thursday photograph, members of the Douglas County Sheriff Department pose with illegal alcohol and still after ...
William Jennings Bryan, Billy Sunday, and the Prohibition Party Ticket of 1920 ∙ Patricia C. Gaster
“We have come together to select a burial lot for John Barleycorn,” said Virgil G. Hinshaw in his opening address to Prohibition Party delegates on July 21, 1920. The ...
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