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Castle Thunder, Richmond, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

No. 892. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, Virginia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The old Capitol prison, Washington, D.C.

Photograph shows old Capitol prison used during the Civil War. No. 4159. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 2, pl. 9... More

Castle Pinkney [i.e. Pinckney], Charleston, S.C. August, 1861, interio...

Photograph shows Federal prisoners from Bull Run in the yard and Confederate guards on the parapet. No. 5139. Hand written on verso: "Prisoners from Bull Run". Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. I, page 165"... More

Federal prisoners captured at battle of Bull Run, Castle Pinkney [i.e....

Photograph shows group from the 69th New York Infantry (Fighting 69th), some seated, others standing in the rear, facing front. A sign above the door, No. 7 Musical Hall, 444th Broadway. No. 4374. Mounted wit... More

The old Capitol prison - A group of people standing in front of a buil...

No. 1019. Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Views in Washington, D.C. Hand written on verso: "from B815-1019 print". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

[Early photographic view of Washington, D.C. from Capitol Hill, lookin...

Northwest view with 1st, B, C, D streets, and Indiana Ave. in the foreground; view includes the Washington Jail, Aldrich's Wholesale Flour, Grain & Feed Warehouse, Dyers American House, Shamokin & Lykins Valley... More

Charles City Court House, Virginia. View of jail

Photographer name from negative sleeve: T.H. O'Sullivan. Caption from negative sleeve: Jail at Charles City Court House, Va., 13th June 1864. Corresponding print is in LOT 4165-G. Credit line: Civil war photogr... More

Old Capitol prison Washington, D.C. circa 1864

no. 103. See also variant of this image: LC-F8-1839. Photograph manipulated with the addition of two figures drawn in ink in the foreground.

Richmond, Virginia. Libby prison on Cary street

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond, Va., Libby Prison. On Cary Street. Photographer: Alexander Gardner. File print in LOT 4162-C. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861... More

Richmond, Virginia. Libby prison on Cary street

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond, Va., Libby Prison. On Cary Street. File print in LOT 4162-B. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Print... More

Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, April 1865 (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows the north side of Libby Prison, a Confederate military prison taken over by Union troops.

Castle Thunder Prison, Petersburg [i.e. Richmond], April, 1865 (Andrew...

Photograph shows a Union guard standing next to Castle Thunder, a Confederate military prison in Richmond, Virginia. Published in: Russell's Civil War photographs : 116 historic prints / by Andrew J. Russell ;... More

Views of Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, April, 1865

Photograph shows crowd outside Libby Prison. No. B967. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. 7, page 121 (middle)". Mounted with five other photographs with general captions: Views of Castle Thunder and Libby P... More

Commissioned officers of 19th Iowa Infantry after their exchange as pr...

Caption from negative sleeve: Commissioned Officers 19th Iowa Infantry Photographed at New Orleans as they appeared on arrival from Camp Ford, Texas as exchanged Prisoners of War. Copy Neg.; Miller, vol. 7, p. ... More

Waiting for a load of exchanged prisoners at Aiken's Landing, James Ri...

Stereograph showing steamer New York at dock waiting for exchange of prisoners at Aiken's Landing, on the James River in Virginia. No. 6619. Copyright in 1904 by John C. Taylor, Hartford, Conn. Forms part of: ... More

Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, April, 1865

Photograph shows crowd with tents and a covered wagon outside Libby Prison. No. B128. Hand written on verso: "Miller vol. 7, p. 91 (top)". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Old Capitol Prison, Washington / negative by William R. Pywell, positi...

Photograph showing the prison located behind the Capitol building in which a number of Confederate prisoners were held. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington,... More

State Prison and Warm Springs, near Carson City

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 700. LOT subdivision subject: Nevada Cities and Towns. This record contains unverified old data fr... More

Lima. The penitentiary - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Photographs by Courret Hermanos Fotogs., Lima, Peru. In album: Recuerdos del Peru, vol. 2.

Justice out of a job / F. Opper.

Illustration shows Justice as an old woman, asleep at a desk, with cobwebs, spiders, and mice taking over the courtroom; outside a window an armed group of vigilantes have broken down the door to a jail and rem... More

Waverly House and county jail, Thomasville, Georgia

In album: p. 71. Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Prisoners' gate, Hague, Holland] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J, foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, c1905. Print no. "17464". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at... More

New York Tombs, N.Y. New York City sterescopic card, 19th century.

On mount: Stereoscopic Gems. New York & Vicinity. Public domain image of 19th-century New York City architecture, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia: exterior view from southeast

Photo by Chas. Loeber. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf; CW-Prisons-Libby Prison; PI.

Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia: interior, Streight's room

Photo by Chas. Loeber. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf; CW-Prisons-Libby Prison; PI.

Revolt in prison, Damascus. 19th century, Library of Congress collecti...

Crowd of people outside prison. 16386-7 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Robert E.M. Bain.

[Cossack huts in far east Siberia near Khabarovsk]

Title from original negative jacket. Similar to lantern slide (W7-1084) titled: Convict camp - 10 men in front of sod house. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Hi... More

Jail (1896), Philipsburg, Montana

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Municipal misc.; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roads... More

Moyamensing Prison, Philadelphiadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19th century st...

Stereo copyrighted by Alfred S. Campbell, Elizabeth, N.J. No. 482. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pa. Phila. M- Prison; Prisons; Photog. I.; Pa. Phila. Corre... More

Jail (1896), Philipsburg, Montana

Tombs Prison - New York. New York City sterescopic card, 19th century.

Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, New York, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Moyamensing Prison, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereosco...

No. 482. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Florence military prison series--"Bringing the log into camp" / J.E. T...

Prisoner on his knees and elbows bringing a log into camp. Photographic reproduction of watercolor by James E. Taylor, 1897. No. 33.

Execution by the garrote in the yard of the city prison, Havana, Cuba

48721 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 9956. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Filipino prisoners of war at Pasig, Philippine Islands / Strohmeyer & ...

Photograph shows male prisoners squatting and standing in two lines. 52296 U.S. Copyright Office. Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, New York, London, Toronto - Canada, Ottawa - Kansas. Copyright by Underwood ... More

Filipino prisoners of war - Public domain portrait print

Group of prisoners of war, posed in courtyard. No. 160. Illus. from: The Philippines through a camera / George C. Dotter. Los Angeles, Ca. : [Kingsley-Barnes & Neuner Co.], 1899. (DS659.D72)

J. Montefiore Meyers going to jail, New York

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More

Tombs Prison, N.Y, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Deputy Marshall taking Dowd to jail

Chinese criminals in the viceroy's yamen, now used as a jail, Tien-Tsi...

A38369 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by B.L. Tingley. No. 12023. Public domain image of a criminal, arrest mugshot, conviction, prisoner, crime, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait photo of Charles J. Guiteau, Cabinet photograph

Photograph shows portrait of Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield, taken in jail in Washington, D.C. 2169 U.S. Copyright Office. On recto: "No. 2."

Portrait photo of Charles J. Guiteau, Cabinet photograph

Photograph shows portrait of Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield, taken in jail in Washington, D.C. 2174 U.S. Copyright Office. On recto: "No. 7."

Thaw trial - crowd at Tombs prison, New York

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Date based on the times of the two trials of... More

500 prisoners in court of jail, San Juan, Porto Rico

Prisoners lined up along wall. 19072D U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by B.L. Singley. No. 10274.

Reunion of US Deputy Marshals at Fort Smith

Panoramic photo of former deputy marshals posed in front of historic Fort Smith courthouse and jail building. The photo was taken in the early 1900s. Photo courtesy of U.S. Deputy Marshal James Elbert Emmert Fa... More

Leon F. Czolgosz, the assassin

Reproduction of first photograph of Leon F. Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, in jail. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's weekly, McKinley extra, 1901 Sept. 9, cover. Copyrighted by Judge Company, 1901.

Imperial prison near the Summer Palace of the emperor, near Peking, Ch...

No. 3799. Public domain image of 19th century China, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ruins of jail where Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, and other Mormon leader...

No. 6. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

City Prison, New York City - New York City Architecture

Shows the Tombs, built in 1902, with Centre Street at right. Photoprint copyrighted by A. Loeffler, Tompkinsville, N.Y. No. 72. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geo... More

Washingtons First Jail Steilacoom Washington, 19th century stereoscope...

No. 595 Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Tombs, New York City's famous prison, and the Bridge of Sighs, Fra...

Socalist women in Los Angeles jail

Mrs. Cloudesley Johns, English socialist, wtih three Los Angeles women. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). LOT subdivision... More

The Lost New Year's Dinner

Scene 5 from motion picture showing man and woman seated at table in jail. H120459 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by the Edison Manufacturing Co. This record contains unverified data from caption ... More

Plains of Abraham, looking down the St. Lawrence from the Provincial J...

No. 16003. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[New York City Police Dept. activities: arraigning prisoner at Tenderl...

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Photo by Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Police; Crime; Shelf.

The Tombs and Law Courts, New York

133371 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright, 1908, by Stereo-Travel Co. No. 36.

Old debtors' prison at Williamsburg, Virginia

No. 16560. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[District jail, Washington, D.C.]

J138945 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 23. Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Helen Boyle at the jail - Public domain photograph, glass negativ...

Christmas tree at the District Jail, Washington, D.C. and some of the ...

National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). No. 3456. Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[A scene in a Georgia jailyard during U.S. Court]

12 men playing cards at 3 tables, with a group of men posed behind them. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Cong... More

[Photo of prison: prisoners marching to dinner, Leavenworth]

[Photo of prison: cell block, Atlanta Penitentiary]

Delegates to the Prison Congress

Nat'l Woman's Party. Book cover: Jailed for Freedom, by Doris Stevens

A book sitting on top of a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from negative or negative sleeve. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General... More

Chihuahua Prison, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Photo copyrighted by the Mutual Film Co. who contracted with Pancho Villa to produce a silent film "The life of General Villa" during the Mexic... More

Tom Green County Jail, San Angelo, Tex

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Sing Sing, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows Sing Sing prison, Ossining, New York. (Source: similar Bain negative: LC-B2-2778-5) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection ... More

Sing Sing, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows Sing Sing prison, Ossining, New York. (Source: related Bain negatives) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of C... More

Offices & prison, Ossining, N.Y

Photo shows Sing Sing prison, Ossining, New York. (Source: related Bain negative: LC-B2-2778-3) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection ... More

Prison in Sandjak of Novibazar i.e., Novi Pazar

Photo shows prison in Novi Pazar, a sanjak (administrative region) of the Ottoman Empire until after the First Balkan War (1912-1913) when it became part of Serbia and Montenegro. (Source: Flickr Commons projec... More

Warden Osborne & prisoners, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Thomas Mott Osborne (1859-1926), a prison administrator and reformer who was appointed warden of Sing Sing prison, Ossinsing, New York in 1914, with prisoners. (Source: Flickr Commons project, ... More

Warden T.M. Osborne, Sing Sing - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Thomas Mott Osborne (1859-1926), a prison administrator and reformer who was appointed warden of Sing Sing prison, Ossinsing, New York in 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from... More

Mrs. Walters (Rogers) going to jail

Photograph shows Ida Sniffen Walters, the central figure in a case in which she poisoned her two children and attempted to kill herself in December, 1912 in New York. She married Lorlys E. Rogers while in priso... More

Entrance to the federal penitentiary, Atlanta

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Ga. Atlanta; Prisoners... Ga. Atlanta 1910; Prisons; Geogr.; Shelf.

Housing conditions in the settlement of Dunbar. They are better than t...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2057. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Taking Becker to Sing Sing - Public domain portrait photograph

Photo shows "Charles Becker, the ex-Police Lieutenant and convicted murderer of Herman Rosenthal, who will be sentenced to death this morning by Justice Goff" on way to Sing Sing prison, Ossining, New York. (So... More

Lieut. Chas. Becker at Sing-Sing, Sheriff Harburger

Mess hall, Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y., seating capacity 1200

Photograph shows a mess hall filled with several rows of set tables; an attendant oversees men with large containers filling bowls.

FEUD. SCENES IN VIRGINIA MOUNTAIN TOWN AT TRIAL AFTER FEUD

A black and white photo of a man laying in bed, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Photo shows Floyd Allen wounded in jail, after his capture. Photo taken in Carroll County, Virginia, between Marc... More

Becker on way to Sing Sing - Public domain portrait photograph

Photo shows "Charles Becker, the ex-Police Lieutenant and convicted murderer of Herman Rosenthal, who will be sentenced to death this morning by Justice Goff." on his way to Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York... More

FEUD. SCENES IN VIRGINIA MOUNTAIN TOWN AT TRIAL AFTER FEUD

A black and white photo of a man laying in a bed, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Photo shows Floyd Allen wounded in jail after his capture. Photo taken in Carroll County, Virginia, between Mar... More

Taking Becker to Sing Sing - Public domain portrait photograph

Preston De Costa, fifteen year old messenger #3 for Bellevue Messenger...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3568. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Preston DeCosta i.e., De Costa?, fifteen year old messenger #3 for Bel...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3569. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Becky Edelson i.e., Edelsohn taken from jail

Photograph shows Rebecca Edelsohn (c. 1889 or 1892-1973) after her arrest for attempting to hold an open air mass meeting in Fountain Square, Tarrytown, New York on May 30, without a permit. Edelsohn and fellow... More

[Mexican War scenes, 1914: rebels beside stacks of rifles]

J189839 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by Mutual Film Corporation. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mexico History 1914; War prisoners.

[Mexican War, 1914: religious procession in Chihuahua, Mexico]

J194157 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mexico History 1914; Geogr; Processions; War prisoners.

[Mexican War, 1914: Rebel troops passing through street in Chihuahua]

J194167 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mexico History 1914; Geogr; Processions; War prisoners.

A family whose history has been a stormy one and the father shot for r...

Cannes. Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: M. Guerin. Group title: Refugees and relief. Date based on date range for negat... More

Prisoners get rations, Zossen - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Photograph shows prisoners getting food at Zossen prisoner of war camp, Wünsdorf, Zossen, Germany, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on... More

Body of Dago Frank being carried to hearse

Photo shows funeral of "Dago Frank" Cirofici, a New York City criminal convicted of murdering Herman Rosenthal, along with his associates Harry Horowitz "Gyp the Blood", Louis Rosenberg (Rosenweig) "Lefty Louis... More

This photograph taken at Saintes (Charente Inferieure) before an old a...

Cliche envoye le 29 Juin 18/au Secretaire General. Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Refugees and relief. On caption card: Print in album. Date based on date range for negative series. G... More

[Russia]. German & Austrian prisoners. [Russian men and women]. [Russi...

Titles from item and devised by Library staff. From disbound album of James Maxwell Pringle's business trip to Russia and Asia for First National City Bank of New York. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2010:041

Armenian soldiers bringing in a bunch of prisoners, these men were des...

Men walking in front of soldiers on horseback on a cobblestone street; church in background. Title from caption list. Official U.S. Army photograph. Photograph taken during the American Military Mission to Arme... More

Germans & American Guard, Siberia

Photograph shows German men, probably prisoners of war, under the guard of an American soldier in Siberia, Russia during or after World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by ... More

French gardener, Prison camp, Zossen

Photograph shows a French prisoner working on a flower display outside a building at Zossen prisoner of war camp, Wünsdorf, Zossen, Germany, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title and ... More

Prisoners of war, Berezovka, Siberia

Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantham Bain Coll... More

Sing Sing Prison, George Grantham Bain Collection

Chapel of Russian prisoners, Zossen

Photograph shows Russian prisoners seated in a chapel during services at Zossen prisoner of war camp, Wünsdorf, Zossen, Germany, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title and date from da... More

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