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Primary Sources: The 1920s: Capone, Al

a.k.a. the Roaring Twenties, The Jazz Age

Online Sources: Al Capone

Al Capone - The Verdict
FBI Vault: Al Capone
IRS: Historical Documents relating to Alphonse (Al) Capone, Chicago
Petition Protesting the Possible Release of Al Capone
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"This petition, signed by 34 citizens of South Dakota, protests the possibility that President Herbert Hoover would release Al Capone from prison (Capone had reportedly offered to help search for Charles Lindbergh Jr., the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh)."
DPLA: A photograph of the gangster Al Capone and Chicago Commissioner of Detectives John Stege, 1930
Digital Public Library of America
Trial of Al Capone (1931)
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Includes images and selected documents from the trial.
Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone (image)
World War I Draft Registration Card for Alphonse Capone

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