Enforcing prohibition post mortem ' In pencil lower left

' In pencil lower left 'Elected [1789 struck through] 1791'

Children buying ice-cream from an Italian trader

Zoological studies of mollusc shells

The episode is said to have inspired the nursery rhyme London Bridge is Falling Down

Enforcing prohibition post mortem ' In pencil lower leftEnforcing prohibition, Norfolk, Virginia, USA, 1920s. Law enforcement agents examining at a cache of 191 pint bottles found underneath a sailor's mattress on a steamer putting in at Norfolk, Virginia. The sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol for consumption were banned in the United States under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed by Congress in 1919. The ban remained in force until the amendment was repealed