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Lot 563
Sale 1097 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-410
Nov 8, 2022
9:00AM CT
Lots 411-717
Nov 9, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$800 -
1,200
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$10,000
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Lot Description
CAPONE, Alphonse ("Al") (1899-1947). An archive of ephemera, including photographs and related matchbooks.
A matchbook from Jim Colosimo's Cafe, listing Al Capone as manager ("A. Capone, Manager"). Advertising The Cats Pajamas starting Al Jolson; Texas Guinan; Isham Jones; and the Ragtime Band. With an advertisement on the back: "vote for "Big Bill" Thompson." William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson is the most recent Republican to have served as Mayor of Chicago; his open alliance with Capone earned him a reputation as one of the most unethical mayors in American history. Capone's support was pivotal to Thompson's campaign to return to the Mayor's office in 1927.
A group of modern reprints from original negatives of photographs showing Capone and his associations horsing around with what appears to be a .41 Colt revolver at the Sell's Resort in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin.
[Also with:] "Former Trostel Estate." Upper half only of a printed map of the Former Trostel Estate, located along the Wisconsin and Michigan border. With annotations in ballpoint pen presumably in the hand of Bill Sells, and with lots colored in red and blue crayon indicating the ownership of Bill Sell and others, with lines in ballpoint pen delineating private roads. (See lot 560.) -- A matchbook, from Club Carnival, Hurley, Wisconsin. Reportedly, in the 1920s, Hurley was known as a town that ignored prohibition, and Silver Street gained notoriety. Capone and other gangsters were known to frequent establishments there. -- A collection of 20th-century newspaper articles and clippings relating to Capone.
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