An Edwin Marcus editorial cartoon for the New York Times, skewering the federal government's ability to police the Canadian border against bootleggers. The Dry Years' honesty runs both directions — the era produced its own contemporary skeptics, and this is one, in ink. The cartoon logic — enforcement as a leaking sieve — visualized three years before Repeal was even a live political idea. The joke was on the law, and everyone already knew it.

Maker: Edwin Marcus
Date: 1923
Medium of the original: Poster
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00581

As chosen: 18 x 12 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	18 x 12 in
Outside size	19.6 x 13.6 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	258	Excellent	Trimmed 9.7%
12 x 8 in	238	Excellent	Trimmed 7.8%
14 x 11 in	188	Good	Trimmed 8%
16 x 12 in	172	Good	Trimmed 3.6%
18 x 12 in	159	Good	Trimmed 7.8%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
20 x 16 in	129 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 16 in	119 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 18 in	115 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 20 in	95 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 24 in	86 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 24 in	79 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 30 in	69 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	57 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	47 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged