# Scenes

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/scenes/

Places, rooms and events around American organized crime, in Library of Congress photographs marked no known restrictions: the Tombs and Sing Sing, Prohibition raids and rum runners, the waterfront, courthouses, and the Senate hearing rooms of the 1950s and 1960s.

Scenes rather than portraits. The photographs on this page show places and occasions: a jail and a prison, a liquor raid, a rum runner under chase, a crowd of men waiting for work on a pier, a courthouse, a hearing room. Faces appear in them, and where the Library of Congress names someone, the record page quotes the caption. This archive does not add names the captions do not give.

Every photograph here is a Library of Congress item whose record carries the rights statement "No known restrictions on publication," and the record page for each quotes that statement with its collection and reproduction number. The photographs run in order of date, earliest first. Tiles open the record page, where the Library's title, the date and the caption are set out, along with what the record does not say.

Some of the scenes are context rather than organized-crime records. The 1912 and 1914 Rosenthal-case photographs predate Prohibition, and a few Prohibition-era frames show enforcement or government laboratories. The two "Fulton Fish Market" frames show two men on a pier with a bridge behind them, not a market, and are labelled that way. The printed hearing records are filed separately, among them the [Kefauver](/items/kefauver-part-5-illinois-1950/) and [McClellan](/items/mcclellan-part-53-1959/) volumes. No photograph here is tied by its record to a particular printed session, and a photograph shows a room and not what was said in it.