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Al Capone mug shot, 1934 (side)

Profile identification photograph published by the FBI as "Al Capone Mug Shot 1934 (Side)" and captioned as taken at Alcatraz circa 1934. A copy is stored here.

Date: 1934
Kind: photograph
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Rights: A Bureau of Prisons (Alcatraz) photograph per the FBI caption, published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A work of the United States government, public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The FBI serves the image 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 Mug Shot 1934 (Side)” and captions it: “Mug shot of Al Capone in Alcatraz prison circa 1934.” It is in the repository’s History folder and is the profile companion to the front view. The repository lists the file at 154 KB.

The caption says “circa”; the date field is the year in the entry title. Like the front view, this page does not claim the day the photograph was taken or which cell Capone occupied. His Alcatraz warden’s notebook page is filed separately.

The copy shown here is the original file, downloaded from the FBI image repository on 12 October 2026.

itemAl Capone mug shot, 1934 (front)Front identification photograph published by the FBI as Al Capone's 1934 mug shot. A copy is stored with this archive.

itemAlcatraz warden's notebook page for Alphonse Capone, No. 85Bureau of Prisons form with Capone's Alcatraz identification photograph, holding a card numbered 85. It records his receipt from Atlanta on Aug. 22, 1934, his tax sentence, parole denied in 1935, and his transfer to Terminal Island in January 1939.itemNational Archives list of former Alcatraz inmates: Capone, register 85The National Archives at San Francisco lists Alphonse Capone, called Scarface on the list, among former inmates of the U.S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz, register number 85.

itemAl Capone mug shot, 1939 (FBI)Photograph published by the FBI as "Al Capone Mug Shot 1939." The year comes only from the entry title; the FBI does not say which institution took it.