Federal agents destroying confiscated liquor, photographed by the National Photo Company as part of the same documentary series covering Prohibition enforcement. This is what "extinguished" looked like, literally — not a metaphor, an actual disposal. The procedural calm of the image — destruction as paperwork, not as theater. The record outlasted what it recorded destroying.

Maker: Library of Congress, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
Date: 1923
Medium of the original: Poster
Original held by: Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Credit: Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00578

As chosen: 24 x 18 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	24 x 18 in
Outside size	25.6 x 19.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
10 x 8 in	552	Excellent	Trimmed 8.9%
12 x 8 in	505	Excellent	Trimmed 8.5%
14 x 11 in	401	Excellent	Trimmed 7.3%
16 x 12 in	368	Excellent	Trimmed 2.9%
18 x 12 in	336	Excellent	Trimmed 8.5%
20 x 16 in	276	Excellent	Trimmed 8.9%
24 x 16 in	252	Excellent	Trimmed 8.5%
24 x 18 in	245	Excellent	Trimmed 2.9%
30 x 20 in	202	Excellent	Trimmed 8.5%
30 x 24 in	184	Good	Trimmed 8.9%
36 x 24 in	168	Good	Trimmed 8.5%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
40 x 30 in	147 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	122 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	101 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned: 2026-10-07
Master file: 6,064 x 4,418 px, b-w
Tone: Darks 7, lights 244 of 255; 0.3% clipped light, 1% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 24.06