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Prohibition era publications like X Marks the Spot: Chicago Gang Wars in Pictures both glorified and vilified gangsters during the prohibition era by using characterizations based on hearsay and printing death photos from gang shootings.

Prohibition era publications like X Marks the Spot: Chicago Gang Wars in Pictures both glorified and vilified gangsters during the prohibition era by using characterizations based on hearsay and printing death photos from gang shootings. (The Spot Publishing Company, 1930)

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