Cocktail Construction Matted Print

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• Made in the U.S.A.
• 11 X 8 1/2 inches including the matting

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• Forest Service Region 8 Engineer Cleve Ketcham had a good sense of humor, and in 1974 he drew up this detailed and unique cocktail construction chart. Printed here on fine art paper, this high-resolution scanned artwork is a fun chart which makes an elegant educational and instructional decoration for the kitchen or bar.

In 1919, Congress ratified the 18th Amendment, commonly referred to as the Volstead Act, which outlawed the production, distribution, and transportation of alcohol. Prohibition officially went into effect on January 16, 1920. Originally envisioned as an age of moral reform for the country, the next decade saw an increase in organized crime, homicides, burglaries, and assaults as gangs supplied speakeasies with smuggled alcohol and law enforcement became overwhelmed.

With public opinion against it, Franklin Delano Roosevelt campaigned on repealing Prohibition, which ended in 1933 with the ratification of the 21st Amendment.