# Al Capone mug shot, 1939 (FBI)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-capone-mugshot-1939/

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.

The FBI image repository titles this entry "Al Capone Mug Shot 1939." Its caption reads: "Alphonse Gabriel 'Al' Capone rose to infamy as a gangster in Chicago during the 1920s and early 1930s." It illustrates the FBI history page [Al Capone](/items/fbi-history-al-capone/). The repository lists the file at 2,826 KB.

The year 1939 comes from the entry title alone. The FBI does not give a day or say which institution took the photograph. Federal records filed in this archive place Capone at Alcatraz until January 1939 and then at Terminal Island; the FBI history page says he was released on November 16, 1939. This page does not assign the photograph to any of those places.

The copy shown here was downloaded from the FBI image repository on 12 October 2026 and reduced from 2609 to 2000 pixels wide to keep it under 1.5 MB.

## Sources

- Federal Bureau of Investigation, image repository: https://www.fbi.gov/image-repository/history/capone-mug-shot-1939.jpg/view
- FBI history: Al Capone (the page this image illustrates): https://www.fbi.gov/history/cases-and-criminals/al-capone