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Original vintage glossy 8 x 10 news service photo of Chicago Outfit crime boss Al Capone, moments after buying an apple from a fruit vendor outside the Chicago Federal Building on October 24, 1931, the same day he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for income tax evasion. The reverse bears a filing stamp from September 20, 1971, a United Press International credit stamp, and an affixed UPI caption, which reads: “The file caption with this photo dated October 24 1931, states that Al Capone, who has just been sentenced to 11 years in prison for federal income tax evasion, is passing ‘a humble fruit vendor trying to make an honest living in front of the federal building.’ In his recently published book about Capone, John Kobler writes that during the height of the depression (when unemployed took to the street corners and sold apples), a soup kitchen, financed entirely by Al Capone, dispensed 120,000 meals in six weeks at a cost of $12,000. He reports that Capone once was quoted as saying, ‘I can't stand to see anybody hungry or cold or helpless…If I've given a cent to the poor, I'll bet I've given a million dollars.’” In fine condition, with a few trivial creases. Encapsulated by PSA as an authentic 'Type IV' photograph from 1971.
The Marc and Mary Perkins Collection.
