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Carius, an Indian from a different tribe, is slaughtered and eaten by ...

Illus. in: Theodor de Bry, America, Frankfurt, 1593, p. 48. Reference copy may be in LOT 4411. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Rebel prison at Andersonville & surrounding fortifications

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Eno, H.C.

Lafayette - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Unattributed. Stipple engraving Full-length portrait of Lafayette in Ohnitz prison

Libby Prison - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Mountcastle.

Paul I, emperor of all the Russias, condescending to visit Kosciusko i...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Gaugain, Thos.

The wife of John Bunyan, interceding for his release from prison

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Illman.

Elevation of the New York state prison

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Fox.

Gov. Seward's letter or the triumph of liberality and justice

A dramatic prison scene, intended to contrast the clemency of New York's Whig governor William H. Seward with the vindictiveness of the Democrat-controlled New York City prison administration. In the interior o... More

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

Interview of General Lafayette with his wife & daughters in the prison...

Public domain image - related to Czech and Czechoslovak history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Allen in the Provost Prison - Public domain portrait engraving

1776 or 1777. Wood engraving by Lossing-Barritt. From Harper's New Monthly, v. 17, 1858. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI; Shelf.

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

Corridor of the prison in which Mr. Sickles is confined

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

Lt. Colonel James M. Sanderson. [...] Prison

A black and white photo of a man with a beard. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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

No. 4376. Mounted with one other photograph. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. I, page 165". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

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

[Dr. Hambleton, full lgth, seated, facing slightly left, in prison at ...

Forms part of: Edward Willis papers, Manuscript Division. Reference copy in LOT 4181. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Rebel prisoners in the dungeon of the State House at Jefferson City, M...

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

[Capt. George F. Frescott, full lgth., standing, facing right, in pris...

Forms part of: Edward Willis Papers, Manuscript Division. Reference copy in LOT 4181. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Castle Reed, prison for federal officers at Andersonville, Georgia

Photograph of a print showing the smaller second stockade at Andersonville prison called Castle Reed. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

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 Confederate soldiers above watching Union prisoners below in the yard. No. 4375. Hand written on verso: "See Miller vol. 7, p. 4". Mounted with one other photograph. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

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

[Capt. Sam DeForest, three-quarters length, seated, facing right, in p...

Forms part of: Edward Willis Papers, Manuscript Division. Reference copy in LOT 4181. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

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.

Returned Federal prisoners from Andersonville (i.e. Belle Isle) prison

Public domain reproduction of portrait print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Capt. F.N. Bonneau, three-quarters length, standing, facing right; in...

Forms part of: Edward Willis Papers, Manuscript Division. Reference copy in LOT 4181. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf.

[M.A. Hardin, full lgth., seated, facing left, in prison at Fort Warre...

Forms part of: Edward Willis Papers, Manuscript Division. Reference copy in LOT 4181. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Five unidentified prisoners of war in Confederate uniforms in front o...

Public domain scan of American Civil War image, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia drawn from nature by F. Dielman ; lit...

Print shows a slightly elevated view of the exterior of the Libby Prison building, with the front of the building facing left, a woman with a child walking on the lower left, and a man riding in a horsedrawn wa... More

[Soldiers, other people, and tents of Confederates outside of Libby Pr...

No. 1875. Public domain photograph related to Confederate States of America, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Andersonville Prison, Ga., August 17, 1864. South view of stockade

No. 8216. Hand written on verso: "Vol. VII, p. 119 (top)". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

The escaped refugees from the Libey [sic] Prison

Escaped Union prisoners in woods, being met by Union soldiers(?). Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Illustration from: Harper's Weekly, 1864.

Andersonville Prison, Ga., August 17, 1864. North-west view of stockad...

No. 8215. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. VII, p. 75 (bottom)". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Andersonville Prison, Ga., August 17, 1864. South east view of stockad...

Public domain photograph of American Civil War, 19th-century early photogrpahy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, Confederate States of America.

Photograph showing a group of people gathered outside Libby Prison, an old tobacco warehouse and former Confederate military prison, now held by the Union Army. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of... More

[Elmira Prison, Elmira, New York], Confederate States of America.

Photograph shows rows of tents within stockade at Camp Rathbun, which was converted to a prison camp for Confederate soldiers in 1864. Purchase; Cal Packard; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:060).

Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia sketched by W.C. Schwartzburg, Co. A,...

Print shows an exterior of Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, from across a street, with inmates behind barred windows and guards patrolling in front of the building. Publication date based on copyright state... More

Andersonville Prison, Ga., August 17, 1864. Bird's eye view

No. 8218. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. VII, page 175." Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Andersonville Prison, Ga., August 17, 1864. Issuing rations, view from...

No. 8220. Hand written on verso: "[Miller] Vol. VII, p. 131". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

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.

Execution of the conspirators, Mrs. Mary E. Surratt, Lewis Powell, (Al...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Wood engraving after sketch by D.B. Gulick & W.T. Crane. Size 2 15/16 x 4 15/16. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 20, no. 512 (186... 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. 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

Washington, District of Columbia. General William Hoffman (Commissary ...

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Gen. Wm. Hoffman and staff. Washington D.C. April 1865 (Commissary General of Prisoners). Annotation from negative, glass side: Gen. Hoffman & L... More

Interior of court-yard, Castle Thunder, Richmond, Virginia, April, 186...

Photograph shows soldiers in the courtyard of the prison. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture ... 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.

Richmond, Virginia. Libby prison on Cary street

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Richmond, Virginia. Castle Thunder. Warehouse used as a prison

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, District of Columbia. General William Hoffman (Commissary ...

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Relics of Andersonville Prison from the collection brought from there ...

Inscribed on back: Very Truly yours Dorence Atwater. Entered according to act of Congress by M.B. Brady & Co. in the year 1865 ... District of Columbia. Clara Barton Collection (Library of Congress).

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

Greenhow, Mrs. & Daughter (imprisoned in old Capitol Prison in Wash. D...

Public domain portrait photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

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

Home views. No. 15, Rebel prison - 1865

Stereograph shows a bird's-eye or elevated view of Elmira prison camp in New York, with a long line of prisoners standing along the fence with rows of buildings in the background. No. 15. Printed on label: A ... More

Richmond, Virginia. Libby prison on Cary street

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

"Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make" - Old Song. "No prison is big enoug...

Head of "Boss" Tweed sticking out of jail wall and his feet out another wall. Drawing by Thomas Nast. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1872 Jan. 6, p. 13. Ref. copy may be in LOT 4405 (1872). Th... More

Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05931. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[One side of the great wall] / Abdullah Frères.

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Prison at Cintra. Book illustration from Library of Congress

(DLC/PP-1933:0175). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Neglected Corner of Europe," Harper's magazine, 63:406 (Aug. 1881).

[Libby Prison as it appeared on August 23, 1863]

Libby Prison, and tents in foreground, with one of the tents labeled, "L.H. Lightfoot, leaf tobacco dealer, Richmond, Va." Copyright by J.L. Barlow, Richmond, Va. From the Caleb Henry Carlton Papers.

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

Andersonville Prison, Camp Sumter, Ga., as it appeared August 1st 1864...

20466 U.S. Copyright Office. Exhibited: "The Civil War in America" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2012-2013.

First jail in Broken Bow, Nebraska

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

Andersonville Prison pen, looking Northeast from the Southwest corner

Engraving from a photograph. Illus. in: Century Magazine, v. 40, May-Oct. 1890. Reference copy may be in LOT 4420-U. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Civil War... More

[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

[Prison Pond, Altstadt, Dresden, Saxony, Germany]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Title on item: Dresden. Der Zwingerteich. Print no. "1770". Forms part of: Views of Germa... More

[The Royal Prison and the St. Sophie Church, Altstadt, Dresden, Saxony...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Title on item: Dresden. Zwinger & Sophienkirche. Print no. "1672". Forms part of: Views o... More

[Chillon Castle, interior, Bonivard's Prison, Geneva Lake, Switzerland...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "6624". Forms part of: Views of Switzerland in the Photochrom print collection.

The penitentiary, Guadalajara, William Henry Jackson photograph

Attribution to Jackson based on similarity of title to photo no. 8498 in Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). "8 x 10 = 3945, cut down" and "30169" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09071. Gift; St... More

New York - the proposed new state prison and its site in the town of E...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 70, no. 1795 (1890 Feb. 8), p. 5 (top). Site plan of prison with river in distance, Esopus, New York.

[Prison, Portland, England] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "11039". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... 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

The penitentiary, Guadalajara - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...

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

The convicts' lock-step - Public domain book illustration

Illustration shows a queue of prisoners. Illus. in: Darkness and daylight: or, Lights and shadows of New York life. A woman's narrative of mission and rescue work in tough places, with personal experiences amo... More

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.

Homestead Steel Strike - 2 images: 1. The Mob Assailing the Pinkerton ...

Photo of 2 wood engravings after photos by Darbis, Pittsburg. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1892 July 16. Reference copy may be in Iconography of Pittsburgh Coll. - no. 577. This record contains unverified, old d... More

Condemned to die / F. Opper. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Print shows David B. Hill labeled "Hill-ism", Richard Croker as the Tammany Tiger labeled "Croker-ism", and Roswell P. Flower, wearing a tall stove-pipe hat, labeled "Flower-ism", standing on the right on "Cond... More

Khabarovsk - sleeping room of detention prison

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Convicts lined up outside dormitory at Khabarovsk

Similar to photograph in Lot 11948 from negative LC-USZ62-47622. Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library... More

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.

The prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope Hooper

Poster shows a castle on a hill and owls. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. K91.1895. Gift; J.H. Corning estate.

Convict prison guards at gate of building - Khabarovsk

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

[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

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

Human hearts an idyl of the Arkansaw hills.

Caption: My pa used to raise apples like these! Created by "The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." Direction, W.E. Nankeville. No. 7476. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collecti... More

The Halls of Justice, the Tombs ED French sc 1896

Print shows the prison, built 1835-1840, at Centre, Elm, Franklin, and Leonard Streets, New York City. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Society of... More