April 14, 2011

Throughout the history of Arkansas, backwoods settlers have made use of homemade stills for the distillation of alcohol commonly known as moonshine. By the twentieth century and the days of Prohibition, federal revenue agents searched the state’s countryside looking for illegal moonshine operations. In this photograph, officials proudly pose by a homemade still confiscated circa 1930 near Quitman (Cleburne County).