Said prohibition Maine to prohibition Georgia: “Here’s looking at you”
Subject(s): Alcoholic beverages, Country life, Georgia, Maine, Patent medicines, Prohibition
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Two men labeled “Georgia” and “Maine” hold bottles, “Orange Phosphate” and “Cold Tea,” respectively, which contain alcohol. Their pockets are filled with such bottles, their method of subverting prohibition.
Comments and Context
Puck and cartoonist L. M. Glackens were letting their cynicism show — or, rather, emblazoning it on its colorful cover — about the Prohibition movement in America, generally; and in Georgia, specifically.
The banning of the manufacture, sale, transportation, and importation of alcoholic beverages (as band usually read) was a long-running movement, and for years was coupled with abolition as a moral crusade. Maine was the first state to “go dry,” in 1853, although it repealed and selectively reapplied “dry laws.” Yet to much of the nation, and to cartoonists, Maine became the stereotypical home of Prohibitionists.
In 1906 Georgia voted to adopt statewide Prohibition, the first Southern state to do so; and half a dozen years after this cartoon, half of the United States — either by state ordinances or local options — were “dry.” Prohibition became an amendment to the Constitution in 1919; and was repealed in 1933.
There still are “dry” towns and counties in the United States. It should be noted that under the most strict impositions, individuals were yet free to brew and distill in their homes, for their own consumption. This might have prompted the winks, ill-hidden bottles, and phony labels of the oldest Prohibition state and the youngest in Glackens’s cartoon.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1907-08-28
Creator(s)
Glackens, L. M. (Louis M.), 1866-1933
Period
U.S. President – 2nd Term (March 1905-February 1909)
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Page Count
1
Record Type
Image
Resource Type
Rights
These images are presented through a cooperative effort between the Library of Congress and Dickinson State University. No known restrictions on publication.
Citation
Cite this Record
Chicago:
Said prohibition Maine to prohibition Georgia: “Here’s looking at you”. [August 28, 1907]. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs.
https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o285870. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Glackens, L. M. (Louis M.), 1866-1933. Said prohibition Maine to prohibition Georgia: “Here’s looking at you”. [28 Aug. 1907]. Image.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. August 3, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o285870.
APA:
Glackens, L. M. (Louis M.), 1866-1933., [1907, August 28]. Said prohibition Maine to prohibition Georgia: “Here’s looking at you”.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o285870.
Cite this Collection
Chicago:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-prints-and-photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. August 3, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-prints-and-photographs.
APA:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-prints-and-photographs.
