Composite of nine black-and-white head-and-shoulders photographs of John Dillinger, five in the top row and four in the bottom row, at different angles and dates. — Open the full imageJPG, 1600 × 1118 px, 0.3 MB

"Various Views of John Dillinger": FBI composite of nine photographs

An undated FBI photographic composite of nine views of John Dillinger's face, held by the National Archives in the FBI's records. A copy is stored here.

Date: undated
Kind: photograph
Source: National Archives Catalog
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
NAID: 176251172
Rights: A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (Record Group 65, series "Miscellaneous FBI Photographs," NAID 518194), local identifier 65-M-7-4. A United States government work, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The National Archives catalog marks use "Unrestricted." The catalog names no photographer, and the individual pictures in the composite may have come from police agencies.

The National Archives titles this print “Various Views of John Dillinger.” It sits in the FBI’s series of miscellaneous photographs and carries no date and no photographer’s name. The print mounts nine head-and-shoulders photographs, five above and four below, from different angles and evidently from different dates. One shows him with a mustache.

The research for this archive notes that the same composite appears on the FBI’s Dillinger history page, captioned there as nine images showing his face “as it changed over the years.” Neither the catalog nor the FBI identifies the source or date of each picture, and this page does not assign any.

itemIdentification Order No. 1217, John Dillinger (National Archives copy, 60-NP-319)The National Archives' copy of the Division of Investigation's 12 March 1934 wanted notice for John Dillinger, catalogued as a photograph in the Department of Justice's records. A copy is stored here.

itemIdentification Order No. 1217: John Dillinger (12 March 1934), stamped "Cancelled"Division of Investigation wanted notice for John Dillinger, alias Frank Sullivan, under the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, issued nine days after the Crown Point jail escape. The FBI's copy is stamped CANCELLED. A copy is stored here.

itemJohn Dillinger's death mask (FBI artifact)Plaster death mask of John Dillinger held by the FBI. The FBI says Harold May of the Reliance Dental Manufacturing Co. made it at the Cook County Morgue about twelve hours after Dillinger's death on 22 July 1934. A copy of the FBI's photograph is stored here.