Lot # : 101 - Al Capone St. Valentine's Day Image

Al Capone St. Valentine's Day Period Glass Photograph Image, 4 7/8" x 3 7/8", clear sharp first-generation image, some emulsion loss and minor chips at the edges. Together with a 1948 pamphlet about Dwight H. Green, Illinois governor at the time of Al Capone's arrest. From Wikipdia - "The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the 1929 murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang that occurred on Saint Valentine's Day. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park garage on the morning of that feast day, February 14th. They were lined up against a wall and shot by four unknown assailants who were dressed like police officers. The incident resulted from the struggle to control organized crime in the city during Prohibition between the Irish North Siders, headed by George "Bugs" Moran, and their Italian South Side Gang rivals led by Al Capone.[1] The perpetrators have never been conclusively identified, but former members of the Egan's Rats gang working for Capone are suspected of a role, as are members of the Chicago Police Department who allegedly wanted revenge for the killing of a police officer's son. "