This photograph of Capone was reproduced twice by the newspaper, first in 1931 when it was taken at a game between the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Cubs to raise funds for charity.

The scars on Al “Scarface” Capone’s face are evident on his left cheek as he chats with Cub’s Catcher Charles “Gabby” Hartnett.   Seated next to Capone is his son, seated in the row behind is Fred Pacelli, a.k.a. Frank “Cowboy” Di Giovanni, Vincent Gibaldi, a.k.a. Machine Gun Jack McGurn, and Samuel McPherson Hunt, a.k.a. “Golfbag.” The second time the photo ran, in 1957, it was noted that Roland V. Libonati, a U.S. Representative from Illinois (1930-1934), was seated at center, as indicated by the black arrow. Libonati, whose career was distinguished, was unconcerned about sitting in the gangster’s box and was quoted as saying about Capone, “I liked him because he respected me.” At the time this photograph was taken, Capone was already under arrest for income tax evasion, a crime for which he would be convicted and imprisoned at Alcatraz.

Early photographs from the Babe Ruth file.

This image was passed off by the newspaper as an actual recorded event.

Instead, it is a collage comprised of a silhouetted photograph of the famous airship affixed to a second photograph depicting the stately lions who stand guard at the entrance of the Art Institute of Chicago.

American, August 29, 1929.

Mrs. Mae Capone shown leaving to visit former gang czar at Alcatraz,” this photograph ran in 1938, a year before Capone finished serving his sentence.

Capone’s presence in Alcatraz was periodically newsworthy in San Francisco. In 1934, the Chronicle ran the following item:   “The report that Mrs. Capone had tried to rent a $200-a-month apartment in an exclusive apartment building on Russian Hill yesterday created consternation among the fashionable residents of the district.

Mrs. Capone didn’t get the apartment and continued her search among other expensive buildings in the area. Her inquiries were made only at buildings with a view of Alcatraz. But if Mrs. Capone wishes to communicate with her husband, only visible signals during the day or flashing lights at night will serve her object.

Warden James Johnston of Alcatraz has announced that no visitors will be allowed to see his prisoners at any time.”

Example of a Depression Era photograph used in the Herald & Examiner in 1937.

Armistice Day Celebration.

An example of disaster coverage.

Caption: “FEAR AND PAIN show plainly on face of girl, even though a fireman comforts her. She was trapped for hours in wrecked CTA train after collision with North Shore train at Broadway and Wilson.”

Reproduced in the American on November 6, 1956.

Example of coverage of a Civil Rights Era protest, Selma, Alabama, 1960s

JEWISH COMMUNITY workers and rabbis march to federal building in support of civil-rights demonstrations in Selma and Montgomery. Credited Chicago’s American and date stamped March 19, 1965.

First used in 1965, two years after the death of her husband, John F. Kennedy, this photograph was used again in 1966, 1968 and 1969, by which time Jacqueline Kennedy had become Mrs. Onassis, transitioning from a grieving widow to a new bride.