jail

Kitty Careless in quod : Or waiting for Jew bail

A dashing young lady of fashion, who has evidently been running ahead of the constable, is 'laid by the heels' in a spunginghouse ; the apartment in which she is lodged belongs, it appears from a printed notice... More

Two Prisoners in Irons, from Images of Spain Album (F), 80

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux)

A lecture and a song, concerning the roberry at Newbury, to some men i...

Title.; Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 51, Folder 14.

La Cour de la prison de la Grande-Force vue d'une cellule.

Date et signature - En bas à gauche : "La grande Force / 9 janvier 1821 / Dumoulin."

Military Prison1 Third Fort Union

Military Prison Third Fort Union. Date of photo unknown. Public domain photograph of military activity, World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abel Bowen - House of Industry and House of Correction

House of Industry and House of Correction So. Boston. Built c. 1821-3, Bulfinch, architect(?) Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Military Prison3 Third Fort Union

Military Prison Third Fort Union. Date of photo unknown. Public domain photograph - American ruins, National Parks, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Litho. of prison yard and outline plan of ground, Pendleton's lithogra...

Litho. of prison yard and outline plan of ground. The first State prison buildings were completed in 1805 and occupied in December of that year when 32 convicts were received from Fort Independence on Castle Is... More

MORR 5094, Morristown National Historical Park, 2016.

Museum collection item: MORR 5094, the door from the old jail in Morristown. Tories, Hessian prisoners and other offenders were kept there under guard during the Revolutionary War. The rectangular opening you s... More

Les massacres du 2 au 7 septembre 1792 à la prison de l'Abbaye, emplac...

Les Massacres de Septambre 1792 (Assigned title) Numéro d'inventaire - Au recto, sur le dessin en bas à droite, manuscrit à l'encre rouge : "I.E.D.3506". Tampon - Au recto, sur le dessin en bas à gauche, tampon... More

Jail old stone building. A brick building with a clock on top of it

Architecture stock photograph: The old stone house at the top of the hill / A brick building with a clock on top of it.

Francois Alexandre Pernot - Prison de l'abbaye.

Le vieux Paris. (Group title) Dessin provenant d'un album, aujourd'hui démonté, de 237 dessins. Montage commun à D.6599, D.6600 et D.6603. Pas d'inscription au verso

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Baltimore Jail, to Ephraim William...

Vue de la prison Sainte-Pélagie, mars 1830

Prison Sainte-Pélagie / C (Serie's title)

Card and letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Baltimore Jail, to Franci...

Jean Francois Benard - Les jeux dans la cour. / Sainte-Pélagie. / N°9...

La prison Sainte-Pélagie. (Group title) Planche 9 d'une suite de 12 planches lithographiées. Tampon - Au recto, en bas au centre, sur le trait carré, tampon à l'encre violette : "VILLE / DE / PARIS" (Cf. Lugt n... More

Victor Adam - Jean Francois Benard - Les élections. / Sainte-Pélagie. ...

La prison Sainte-Pélagie (Group title) Planche 4 d'une suite de 12 planches lithographiées. Tampon - Au recto, en bas au centre, sur le trait carré, tampon à l'encre violette : "VILLE / DE / PARIS" (Cf. Lugt su... More

Jean Francois Benard - Sortie du débiteur. / Sainte-Pélagie. / N°12.

La prison Sainte-Pélagie. (Group title) Planche 12 d'une suite de 12 planches lithographiées. Tampon - Au recto, en bas au centre, sur le bas de l'image, tampon à l'encre violette : "VILLE / DE / PARIS" (Cf. Lu... More

Poem: To Sleep, written after a night's incarceration in prison from W...

In this poem written by William Lloyd Garrison, he describes the joy of sleeping although being imprisoned in jail. "Even to this desolate place - Thou com'st, as 'twere a palace trimm'd with gold," Garrison wr... More

Letter from Prudence Crandall, Brooklyn, [Connecticut], to William Llo...

Prudence Crandall writes this letter to "Mr. Editor" (William Lloyd Garrison was in England at the time) and describes her arrest and imprisonment, along with her sister, Almira Crandall, "for the crime of teac... More

Letter from Prudence Crandall, Brooklyn, [Connecticut], to William Llo...

Prudence Crandall writes this letter to "Mr. Editor" (William Lloyd Garrison was in England at the time) and describes her arrest and imprisonment, along with her sister, Almira Crandall, "for the crime of teac... More

Martin, Geolier du Mont Saint-Michel

Martin, jail guard at the Mount St. Michel Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Robert Benard - La tour de Babel politique.

La Caricature politique, morale, littéraire et scénique (Group title) Planche HT parue dans La Caricature politique, morale, littéraire et scénique, volume 7, 13 mars 1834 (Planche n°369) Inscription - Titre... More

La prison de Bicêtre à Gentilly : le sermon avant le départ de la chaî...

Tampon - Au recto du dessin, en haut à gauche, timbre sec oval : "C. Wise / i (?) St Omer". \ Inscription à l'encre Numéro d'inventaire - Au recto sur le dessin, en bas à droite, manuscrit à l'encre rouge : "ie... More

La prison de Bicêtre à Gentilly : la toilette des forçats avant le dép...

Card03172 fait partie d'un ensemble de dessin sur Bîcêtre numérotés de 1 à 4. Tampon - Au recto du dessin, en haut à gauche, timbre sec oval : "C. Wise / i (?) St Omer". \ Inscription à l'encre Numéro d'inventa... More

Letter from Sophia Davenport, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to Anne Wa...

Sophia Davenport writes to Anne Warren Weston in regards to thanking her for her gift of a publication. She wishes to subscribe to the Liberator, and asks Anne to purchase for her George Thompson's lectures and... More

Letter from Sophia Davenport, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to Anne Wa...

Sophia Davenport writes to Anne Warren Weston in regards to thanking her for her gift of a publication. She wishes to subscribe to the Liberator, and asks Anne to purchase for her George Thompson's lectures and... More

Letter from Sophia Davenport, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to Anne Wa...

Sophia Davenport writes to Anne Warren Weston in regards to thanking her for her gift of a publication. She wishes to subscribe to the Liberator, and asks Anne to purchase for her George Thompson's lectures and... More

Letter from Sophia Davenport, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to Anne Wa...

Sophia Davenport writes to Anne Warren Weston in regards to thanking her for her gift of a publication. She wishes to subscribe to the Liberator, and asks Anne to purchase for her George Thompson's lectures and... More

Révolution française : Louis XVI sur la terrasse du donjon du Temple. ...

De Juillet à Août1792. (Serie's title) Oeuvre fixée sur un montage. Numéro d'inventaire - Au recto du mmontage sous l'estampe, numéro au crayon : "G. 28558" \ Inscription au crayon Tampon - Au recto de la planc... More

The License law!! ... The epilogue on the law of 1838 and the effect o...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 244, Folder 39.

Le cachot. - Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Les Français peints par eux-mêmes. (Group title) Gravure montée sur une feuille cartonnée. Lettre - Signé sur l'image, en bas à gauche : "Gerard. sc."; et à droite : "HENRY. MONNIER."; et en-dessous de l'image,... More

Shylock's year, or 1840 with no bankrupt law

An unusually well-drawn satire on the failure of Congress to pass a national bankruptcy act before it adjourned in July 1840. The measure was passed by the Senate in May 1840 but later defeated in the House. T... More

National parks: Jail - public domain image

Fort Vancouver. The original jail was built between 1841 and 1844; this reconstruction dates to 2001. The gable roof has wood shingles and exposed rafters. Instead of windows, there are two square openings that... More

Letter from Esther Moore, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to Maria Westo...

Esther Moore writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to hearing that Maria "at the memorable epoch in Phila," the riot in Pennsylvania Hall in 1838. She complains that "the quakers are accomplaces [sic] in th... More

Letter from Thomas Parnell Beach, The damp, cold, jail, Newburyport, [...

Thomas Parnell Beach writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to appreciating her "affectionate notice" of his condition. He believes that what has been done for the slave "is the result of independent individ... More

Caricature, L'Hôtel des haricots, public domain cartoon image

In jail Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1840s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Murder! $500 reward. A reward of $500 will be given for the apprehensi...

Gift, from the Edward McPherson Papers, 1908. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 137,... More

Letter from Mary Emily Jones, Baltimore, to Amos Augustus Phelps, July...

Mary Emily Jones writes to Amos A. Phelps regarding the condition under which Charles T. Torrey is detained in Baltimore jail and the measured employed to secure all possible comforts for him. Courtesy of Bosto... More

Letter from Mary Ide Torrey, South Scituate, [Massachusetts], to Amos ...

Mary Ide Torrey writes Amos A. Phelps providing him instructions concerning a picture which belonged to Mr. Torrey and is now in Mr. Harned's hands. She also requests that he burn the letters Mr. Torrey wrote w... More

Hamilton Public Library, Ontario

This is the 2nd town hall. The first was a combined town hall/police station/jail/fire hall on King William St. that was opened in 1836. They moved to a site on James Street North in 1839. It was a combined Mar... More

View of the new jail for Suffolk County, in the state of Massachusetts...

Picryl description: Public domain image of Boston, Massachusetts, from Boston Pictorial Archive, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kansas. Fort Leavenworth. U.S. Military Prison

Public domain photograph - historical image of Kansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cambridge Street Jail, Boston, Mass., Stereoscope Card

Public domain photograph of library building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

County jail. H. De Marsan, Publisher, 60 Chatham Street, N. Y

"As sung by E. Dugan." In English. (language) Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Letter from Thomas Garrett, Wilmington, [Delaware], to William Lloyd G...

Thomas Garrett encloses a letter for George Thompson. Thomas Garrett is anxious to see George Thompson but is occupied with business affairs that prevent him from leaving home. There is great alarm caused by th... More

"School Room B" in state prison - Charleston, Boston Mass.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic place interior, salon, hall lobby, living room, 18th-19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Unsigned primitive painting of Charlestown Prison Yard showing granite...

Unsigned primitive painting of Charlestown Prison Yard showing granite octagonal structure of 1850. Possibly painted by an inmate; certainly an example of folk art. For the first sixty years in the life of the ... More

Interior of guard room, Mass. State Prison - Charleston, Boston Mass.

Public domain photograph of building in Boston, Massachusetts - Picryl description

Richmond jail. Air: The union cockade. H. De Marsan, Publisher, 54 Cha...

"Dedicated to Michael Corcoran of the Irish brigade." In English. (language)

Bedford town jail for offenders who committed crimes within the boroug...

This image has been taken from scan 000060 from volume 02 of "[Our own country. Descriptive, historical, pictorial.]". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users o... More

Massachusetts State Prison and warden's house - Charleston, Boston Mas...

Public domain photograph of library building - Picryl description

Beacon Hill showing Charles Street Jail

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic city, cityscape, street view, buildings, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Broadsheet relating to life in prison, a man in his jail cell

José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913)

East front elevation of prison - Charleston, Boston Mass.

East front elevation of prison. Shows Massachusetts State Prison building of 1826, and extension of 1850. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Caricature, Une visite au bagne de Naples, public domain cartoon image

A visit to the jail of Naples Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Jail Bird, from The Comic Natural History of the Human Race

Henry Louis Stephens (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1824–1882 Bayonne, New Jersey)

Jesús Bruno Martinez escaping from jail, from a broadside entitled 'La...

José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913) Public domain photograph - performance, musical, dance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kidnapping again!! : A man was stolen last night by the Fugitive Slave...

This broadside publicizes the arrest of the fugitive slave Anthony Burns, who escaped from Richmond, Virginia and made his way to Boston where, on May 24th, 1854, he was arrested. While he was awaiting trial fo... More

George G. Foster, Moyamensing Jail., autograph letter signed to R. W. ...

Asks for a definite answer to his appeal. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Prison de l'Abbaye, en cours de démolition pour le percement du boulev...

Prison de l'Abbaye (Inscribed title) Tampon - Sur le montage, en bas à droite sous l'image, tampon ovale à l'encre violette : "VILLE / DE / PARIS". Inscription - Dans le négatif, inscription manuscrite en bas à... More

Fellow citizens of Massachusetts! : Read and consider

This broadside publicizes the arrest of the fugitive slave Anthony Burns, who escaped from Richmond, Virginia and made his way to Boston where, on May 24th, 1854, he was arrested. While he was awaiting trial fo... More

The Lancaster Industrial School for Girls, Lancaster, Massachusetts

The Elm Cottage was one of many at the Lancaster Industrial School for Girls, located on Old Common Road. Established in 1854, the school was very progressive for the times and the first correctional institutio... More

William Wright, Savannah, Ga., manuscript letter signed to Ziba B. Oak...

On reward offered by William D. Ellis for capture of runaway Robert, now in jail. In hand of Wm C. Dawson. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

The man is not bought! : He is still in the slave pen in the courthous...

This broadside publicizes the arrest of the fugitive slave Anthony Burns, who escaped from Richmond, Virginia and made his way to Boston where, on May 24th, 1854, he was arrested. While he was awaiting trial fo... More

George G. Foster, Moyamensing Jail., autograph letter signed to R. W. ...

Asks for a definite answer to his appeal. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

George G. Foster, Moyamensing Jail., autograph letter signed to R. W. ...

Asks for a definite answer to his appeal. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

William Wright, Savannah, Ga., manuscript letter signed to Ziba B. Oak...

On reward offered by William D. Ellis for capture of runaway Robert, now in jail. In hand of Wm C. Dawson. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

William Wright, Savannah, Ga., manuscript letter signed to Ziba B. Oak...

Asks enquiries about Negro in Savannah jail purporting to belong to Ellis; will buy some Negroes if cheap. In hand of Wm C. Dawson. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

The man is not bought! : He is still in the slave pen in the courthous...

This broadside publicizes the arrest of the fugitive slave Anthony Burns, who escaped from Richmond, Virginia and made his way to Boston where, on May 24th, 1854, he was arrested. While he was awaiting trial fo... More

George G. Foster, Moyamensing Jail., autograph letter signed to R. W. ...

Asks for a definite answer to his appeal. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Fellow citizens of Massachusetts! : Read and consider

This broadside publicizes the arrest of the fugitive slave Anthony Burns, who escaped from Richmond, Virginia and made his way to Boston where, on May 24th, 1854, he was arrested. While he was awaiting trial fo... More

A man kidnapped! : A public meeting at Faneuil Hall will be held.. to ...

This broadside publicizes the arrest of the fugitive slave Anthony Burns, who escaped from Richmond, Virginia and made his way to Boston where, on May 24th, 1854, he was arrested. While he was awaiting trial fo... More

William R. Wilson, Kingstree, S.C., autograph letter signed to Ziba B....

Asks about Caleb, now in jail. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

La chapelle de la prison de Mazas

Signature - En bas à droite Inscription concernant le titre - En bas à gauche La chapelle de la prison de Mazas

A. J. McElveen, Sumterville, S.C., autograph letter signed to Ziba B. ...

Asks Green's woman sent to Sumterville; chance to buy at $900, now in jail. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Photograph of Alcatraz Island Light Station in California

Lighthouses Public domain photograph of a lighthouse, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lynch law in California - surrender of prisoners at the county gaol [j...

Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1856 July 12, p. 36. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: California San Francisco; California Hist. 1856; Lynching; Prisons.

Burch, Kirkland & Co., Montgomery, Ala., manuscript letter signed to Z...

Reports jailing of James, a runaway. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

H. Buist, [Charleston, S.C.], autograph letter signed to Ziba B. Oakes...

On ownership of slave now sick in jail. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

A. J. McElveen, Sumter Court House, S.C., autograph letter signed to Z...

Reconciled to going to jail; transfer of the Chandlers' Negroes. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

A. J. McElveen, Sumter Court House, S.C., autograph letter signed to Z...

Reconciled to going to jail; transfer of the Chandlers' Negroes. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

La Prison, à Chichen-Itza - Early photography, Public domain image

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of France, mid-19th century albumen print, no copyright restrictions.

The Oberlin rescuers at Cuyahoga Co. jail

Twenty named men posed in front of building. Photo by T.J. Rice, Oberlin, Ohio. This photograph was published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, May 7, 1859, p. 351. Reference copy may be in SSF - Prisone... More

The Hon. Daniel E. Sickles receiving his friends during the day in the...

Mr. Sickles petting dog and talking to a man with a crutch, Wash., D.C., Jail. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, (1859 March 26). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption c... More

Corridor of the prison in which Mr. Sickles is confined

Daniel Sickles and jailor at door of cell, Wash., D.C., jail.

John W. LeBarnes autograph letter to [Thomas Wentworth Higginson], New...

Has 20 or 25 men prepared to attack the Charlestown jail on November 30. Wants him to raise the needed funds. Demands an answer at once. Quoted in M.T. Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 196; O.G. Villar... More

A door of sighs - Early photography, Public domain image

A door of sighs, doorway into Nantucket jail, Nantucket, MA. Courtesy of New Bedford Free Public Library

Mur des Otages. Prison de la Grande Roquette, 11ème arrondissement, Pa...

Grande Roquette. Mur des Otages. (Inscribed title) Tirage contrecollé sur montage ancien Inscription - Inscription au recto Mur des Otages. Prison de la Grande Roquette, 11ème arrondissement, Paris

To the inspectors, directors, wardens, chaplains, &c. of penitentiarie...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 31, Folder 10.

Walnut St. prison Phil. S.E. corner of 6th St

Drawing shows a street-level, perspective view of the Walnut Street Prison, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Drawing is mounted on paper which is mounted on a large sheet of cream paper watermarked on the left side... More

Promenoir de la 6e division. Prison de Mazas, 12ème arrondissement, Pa...

Mazas. Promenoir de la 6e dion [sic] (Inscribed title) Tirage contrecollé sur montage ancien Inscription - Inscription au recto Promenoir de la 6e division. Prison de Mazas, 12ème arrondissement, Paris

Cellule nº1, ancienne chambre du Conseil (première prison de la Reine)...

Conciergerie. / (Cellule nº1) ancienne chambre du Conseil (1er prison de la Reine (Inscribed title) Tirage contrecollé sur montage ancien Signature de l'exécutant - Au recto, sur le carton en bas à droite, manu... More

New Bedford police headquarters

New Bedford police headquarters, brick building with officers and horse drawn police wagons in front. Capt. Mosher written on back. Courtesy of New Bedford Free Public Library

Important state paper. "Extention." Being a piece of the State liquor ...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 66, Folder 8.

3e division. Prison de Mazas, 12ème arrondissement, Paris

Mazas. 3e division. (Inscribed title) Tirage contrecollé sur montage ancien Inscription - Inscription au recto 3e division. Prison de Mazas, 12ème arrondissement, Paris

The county jail. Tune--The "Metropolitian Hackman." Sold wholesale and...

Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Façade extérieure. Prison de Sainte-Pélagie, 5ème arrondissement, Pari...

Ste Pélagie. Façade (Inscribed title) Tirage contrecollé sur montage ancien Inscription - Inscription au recto Façade extérieure. Prison de Sainte-Pélagie, 5ème arrondissement, Paris

Une fenêtre du pavillon des Princes. Prison de Sainte-Pélagie, 5ème ar...

Ste Pélagie. Une fenêtre de la Grande [Libérée] Pavillon des Princes. (Inscribed title) Tirage contrecollé sur montage ancien Inscription - Inscription au recto Une fenêtre du pavillon des Princes. Prison de Sa... More

Façade extérieure. Prison de la Grande Roquette, 11ème arrondissement,...

Grande Roquette. Façade. (Inscribed title) Tirage contrecollé sur montage ancien Inscription - Inscription au recto Façade extérieure. Prison de la Grande Roquette, 11ème arrondissement, Paris