Barker hideout in Florida, with an inset of weapons recovered by agents (FBI, January 1935)

Composite image on the FBI's Barker/Karpis case page: the Florida house where the FBI says Fred and Kate Barker were killed on 16 January 1935, with an inset of weapons recovered afterward. The weapons are not itemized. No copy is stored here.

Date

1935-01-16

Kind

photograph

Source

FBI, History: Cases and Criminals (Barker/Karpis Gang)

Retrieved

2026-10-12

Rights

Published by the FBI on its Barker/Karpis case page with no third-party credit; presumed an FBI photograph, a federal work under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The FBI credits outside photographs elsewhere on its history pages, so no copy is stored here until the origin is confirmed. The FBI serves the image at the source URL.

The FBI’s caption reads: “The Florida home (right) where ‘Doc’ and ‘Ma’ Barker were killed in a shootout with Bureau agents. Inset: The cache of Barker weapons recovered by agents after the firefight.” The inset shows long guns and other items laid out on the steps of the house. The page does not list them, and this page does not.

The caption is inconsistent with other text on the same FBI page. The page puts Arthur “Doc” Barker’s arrest in Chicago on 8 January 1935 and the Florida shootout on 16 January 1935, which it says killed Fred and Kate Barker. This page repeats neither version of the caption as fact; it files the image as the FBI’s own description of a recovered cache.

Object: Composite photograph: a house and an inset of recovered weapons
Maker: not applicable
Date: 16 January 1935
Provenance: recovered by Bureau agents; the page gives no inventory or chain of custody
Appears in: FBI, History: Cases and Criminals, Barker/Karpis Gang