Record
Photograph
1932-05-04
National Archives Catalog
Clifford Berryman cartoon on Capone and Judge James Wilkerson (4 May 1932)
An untitled Clifford Berryman drawing of 4 May 1932 in the Senate's Berryman collection at the National Archives. NARA's note ties it to Capone's departure for the Atlanta penitentiary and Judge James Wilkerson's pending Seventh Circuit nomination.
- Date
- 1932-05-04
- Kind
- photograph
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- NAID
- 6012116
- Rights
- The National Archives catalog marks this item "Access: Unrestricted, Use: Unrestricted." Berryman was a newspaper cartoonist, not a federal employee, so 17 U.S.C. § 105 is not the basis; the catalog's use statement is the only rights statement checked. No copy is stored here; the National Archives serves the drawing at the cited URL.
This is a cartoon drawing, not a photograph; the archive’s schema has no separate type for drawings. The National Archives holds it in the Records of the U.S. Senate, Berryman Political Cartoon Collection, at the Center for Legislative Archives, Local ID E-036. The catalog gives May 4, 1932 as the date it was produced and lists it as untitled.
The catalog note explains the subject. It says Capone “had finally been convicted of income tax evasion and was on his way to the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia to serve an 11 year sentence,” while Judge James Wilkerson still awaited confirmation by the Senate Judiciary Committee for the Seventh Circuit. The drawing is an editorial comment from 1932, not a record of fact; this page cites it for what NARA says it is about.
The image is not stored in this archive. Berryman drew for the Washington Evening Star, and the rights basis for a copy rests only on the catalog’s “Use: Unrestricted” mark, so the drawing is left at the National Archives URL.
