These images of Al Capone from the 1920s and 30s were digitized from glass-plate negatives and original prints made from glass plates. These plates had been stored for decades in the deepest of basement storage rooms at the Tribune Tower, five levels below Michigan Avenue street level. Protected in paper envelopes, the plates were filed haphazardly. They were only recently located and brought up to the newsroom for scanning. Some of these digitized glass-plate images have never before been published. And when the unpublished plates were stored away at the Tower after being developed, perhaps only the photographer and certain editors had glanced at these outtakes.

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