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Image of a Packard Automotive factory plant, very large and surrounded by the urban sprawl of Detroit.

Press photo of top Purple Gang members on trial for the Collingwood Massacre

Newspaper article about the early adoption of prohibition/temperance by Detroit, a foreshadowing of the Purple Gang and other criminal groups.

Anonymous letter to E.A. Hoover at the US Department of Justice about the extortion and other illegal activities committed by the Purple Gang in Detroit.

Anonymous typewritten letter addressed to J. Edgar Hoover at the US Department of Justice

The crime scene photo shows bullet holes outlined in chalk on the walls and floor and door of the apartment at Collingwood Manor.

Newspaper clipping of those suspected and being held after the Collingwood Manor Massacre by the Purple Gang in Detroit.

Newspaper article from Ohio about Detroit's prohibition laws

A mugshot of members of the Purple Gang, an organized crime family based in Detroit during the Prohibition era, responsible for much of the Bootlegging and "rum running" on the Detroit River during the 1910s through early 1930s.

General view of the end of a row of row houses in an unidentified Pittsburgh neighborhood.