Bootlegger Car Chase and Crash

After a thrilling chase through the busiest streets of Washington

Here we present a stunning image of After a thrilling chase through the busiest streets of Washington, ... a couple of bootleggers and their car come to grief at the hands of the Capitol police. It was taken in 1922.

The image shows Prohibition.

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Image ID# 495B3177

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This Photograph Comes from the Collection:

• United States History 1900s - 1930s

And is Part of the Following Theme Groups:

• American Life in the 1920s

• Prohibition

• Washington DC