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Al Capone's fingerprint card: a ten-print card stamped "Master" and "Dead", typed with the names Alphonsus Capone and Alphonse Capone, with rolled and flat impressions of both hands and a signature. — Open the full imageJPG, 1400 × 1381 px, 0.5 MB

Al Capone's fingerprint card (FBI)

Fingerprint card published by the FBI as "Al Capone's Fingerprint Card." The FBI gives no date for the card.

Date: 1899/1947
Kind: photograph
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation, image repository
Retrieved: 2026-10-11
Rights: Published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on fbi.gov with no third-party credit; a United States government work, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The FBI serves it at the cited URL; a copy downloaded from it on 12 October 2026 is stored here.

The FBI image repository titles this entry “Al Capone’s Fingerprint Card” and captions it “Al Capone’s fingerprint card.” It illustrates the FBI history page Al Capone. The repository lists the file at 5,700 KB.

The FBI gives no date for the card and does not say which agency took the prints. The date field on this page is only the span of Capone’s life as the FBI Vault summary gives it (1899–1947); it is not a date for the card.

The copy shown here was downloaded from the FBI image repository on 12 October 2026 (the repository’s 1400 pixel rendition of the 5,700 KB original).

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