prison, prisons

Cell blocks at Occoquan [Workhouse]

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of the exterior of cell blocks at Occoquan prison.

D.C. prison where suffrage pickets were confined.

Cell at Occoquan [Workhouse]. National Woman Party

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of a prison cell in Occoquan Workhouse seen through door with bars.

Taking suffrage prisoners from D.C. Court House to prison.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of arrested National Woman's Party members being loaded into a vehicle just inside garage entrance to brick building, overseen by police and onlookers.

Van bringing suffrage prisoners to D.C. prison.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of people and cars outside large stone building.

Tier in D.C. prison where suffragists were confined in 1917.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Image of interior of prison, with cells, tables and chairs.

Abandoned jail near D.C. Prison where pickets of Aug. 18 were confined...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Image of exterior of prison.

Vida Milholland [in jail cell]. National Woman Party

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Vida Milholland behind bars in a jail cell (District Jail, Washington, D.C.). Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 6, no. 5 (Feb. 9,... More

Kate Heffelfinger after her release from Occoquan Prison, ca. 1917.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of a woman escorting Kate Heffelfinger, wrapped in blanket, outside near a car, after release from jail. Kate Heffelfinger, of Shamokin, Penn., was an art studen... More

Interior dining room D.C. prison

Picryl description: Public domain image of a public building, auditorium, hall, commons, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Murder of Edith Cavell - Drawing. Public domain image.

One of the war series. (Bellows) / Little material is available at present about the precise conditions of her execution. She was aroused at 2 a.m. with no time allowed for dressing. She appeared in her wrapper... More

Hospital at D.C. prison showing, on 3rd floor right, Alice Paul's wind...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Image of exterior of prison hospital. Photograph published in The Suffragist, 7, no. 1 (Feb. 1, 1919): 6.

Dedham Jail, Dedham, Mass. - Sacco & Vanzetti collection

Public domain photograph of library building - Picryl description

Unidentified group of people; Dedham. Mass. - Sacco & Vanzetti collect...

Standing on stairs of Dedham Jail. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Dedham Jail, Dedham, Mass., ca. 1920-1927 - Sacco & Vanzetti collectio...

Jail where Sacco and Vanzetti spent seven years before they were executed. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Dedham Jail, Dedham, Mass. - Sacco & Vanzetti collection

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph.

Dedham Jail, Dedham, Mass. - Sacco & Vanzetti collection

With awnings. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain photograph of building in Boston, Massachusetts - Picryl description

Federal Reformatory for Women, School & Chapel, State Route 3, South o...

Survey number: HABS WV-113-B Building/structure dates: 1928 Initial Construction

Federal Reformatory For Women, Cottages, State Route 3, South of Green...

Survey number: HABS WV-113-C Building/structure dates: 1928 Initial Construction

Federal Reformatory for Women, Administration Building, State Route 3,...

Survey number: HABS WV-113-A Building/structure dates: 1928 Initial Construction

Old Lawyer's Office, 321 Prince Street, Tappahannock, Essex County, Vi...

Survey number: HABS VA-500 Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old Prison, Duke of Gloucester Street, Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Vir...

Photographs # 1, 2, and 3 are part of the Pictorial Archives of Early American Architecture (PAEAA), also found in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Survey number: HABS VA-406 Bui... More

Silverton Historic District, Jail, West Fifteenth & Green Streets, Sil...

Survey number: HABS CO-53-K National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000255

[Old cell block, Sing Sing Prison where Richard Whitney is housed] / W...

Photograph shows an exterior view of Sing Sing Prison, showing guard tower and cell block. NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). On verso... More

Plan for the Modernization of Alcatraz Prison Cell Block D

Consolidated File of Architectural Drawings of Public Buildings Public domain photograph of French architecture design drawing, building plan, Paris, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picr... More

Plan for the Modernization of the Alcatraz Prison Hospital

Consolidated File of Architectural Drawings of Public Buildings Public domain photograph of French architecture design drawing, building plan, Paris, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picr... More

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a jail; but 'til the E...

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

People aren't meant for prisons

Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. F1. 1976

Hallway at the now-abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia,...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pennsyl...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The Eastern State Penitentiary is a former American pri... More

Hallway with crumbling plaster at the abandoned Eastern State Penitent...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Façade of the abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Large room at the abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, ...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Eastern State Penatentury cellblock, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Hallway at the now-abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia,...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Dreary hallway in the abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary, which oper...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

A Cuban refugee debarks from a 437th Military Airlift Wing C-141B Star...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Vandenberg Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Guido C. Locati Release Sta... More

A Cuban refugee debarks from a 437th Military Airlift Wing C-141B Star...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Vandenberg Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Guido C. Locati Release Sta... More

A US marshal searches a Cuban prisoner before he boards a 437th Milita...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Dobbins Air Force Base State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Guido C. Locati Release Status: R... More

A US marshal searches a Cuban prisoner before he boards a 437th Milita...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Dobbins Air Force Base State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Guido C. Locati Release Status: R... More

Cuban refugees board a bus for transport to a maximum security prison ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Vandenberg Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Guido C. Locati Release Sta... More

Military members board a 437th Military Airlift Wing C-141B Starlifter...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Dobbins Air Force Base State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Guido C. Locati Release Status: R... More

The onetime library inside the old Ohio State Reformatory, built in st...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. At first the facility emphasized rehabilitation of young, first-time offenders, but eventually this maximum-security cellblock was add... More

The Wyoming Territorial Prison state historic site in Laramie, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Run as a federal (territorial) and state prison from 1872 to 1903, it then became the agricultural experiment station for the Universi... More

Entry area at the old Ohio State Reformatory, built in stages between ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. At first the facility emphasized rehabilitation of young, first-time offenders, but eventually this maximum-security cellblock was add... More

The Wyoming Territorial Prison state historic site in Laramie, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Run as a federal (territorial) and state prison from 1872 to 1903, it then became the agricultural experiment station for the Universi... More

The Wyoming Territorial Prison state historic site in Laramie, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Run as a federal (territorial) and state prison from 1872 to 1903, it then became the agricultural experiment station for the Universi... More

A cellblock at the old Ohio State Reformatory, built in stages between...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. At first the facility emphasized rehabilitation of young, first-time offenders, but eventually this maximum-security cellblock was add... More

The old Ohio State Reformatory, built in stages between 1886 and 1910 ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. At first the facility emphasized rehabilitation of young, first-time offenders, but eventually this maximum-security cellblock was add... More

A corner of the onetime library inside the old Ohio State Reformatory,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. At first the facility emphasized rehabilitation of young, first-time offenders, but eventually this maximum-security cellblock was add... More

A cellblock at the old Ohio State Reformatory, built in stages between...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. At first the facility emphasized rehabilitation of young, first-time offenders, but eventually this maximum-security cellblock was add... More

A cellblock at the old Ohio State Reformatory, built in stages between...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. At first the facility emphasized rehabilitation of young, first-time offenders, but eventually this maximum-security cellblock was add... More

Gateway at the Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park in Yuma, Ar...

Opened while Arizona was still a U.S. territory, the prison accepted its first inmate on July 1, 1876. For the next 33 years 3,069 prisoners, including 20 women, served sentences there for crimes ranging from m... More

Folsom State Prison is a California State Prison located 20 miles nort...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. As of early 2013, Folsom Prison, one of America's most famous penal institutions (thanks to a song of that name performed by country singer Johnny Cash),... More

Part of the Main Cellblock at the Yuma Territorial Prison State Histor...

Opened while Arizona was still a U.S. territory, the prison accepted its first inmate on July 1, 1876. For the next 33 years 3,069 prisoners, including 20 women, served sentences there for crimes ranging from m... More

Part of the Main Cellblock at the Yuma Territorial Prison State Histor...

Opened while Arizona was still a U.S. territory, the prison accepted its first inmate on July 1, 1876. For the next 33 years 3,069 prisoners, including 20 women, served sentences there for crimes ranging from m... More

The former dentist's office at the West Virginia State Penitentiary, a...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Currently (as of 2015) the huge stone structure that housed hundreds of inmates is maintained as a tourist attraction and training fac... More

Portion of a cellblock at the West Virginia State Penitentiary, a reti...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Currently (as of 2015) the huge stone structure that housed hundreds of inmates is maintained as a tourist attraction and training fac... More

View from a hallway into a cell at the West Virginia State Penitentiar...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Currently (as of 2015) the huge stone structure that housed hundreds of inmates is maintained as a tourist attraction and training fac... More

An old exercise yard West Virginia State Penitentiary, a retired, goth...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Currently (as of 2015) the huge stone structure that housed hundreds of inmates is maintained as a tourist attraction and training fac... More

Department of Corrections insignia on a wall of West Virginia State Pe...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Currently (as of 2015) the huge stone structure that housed hundreds of inmates is maintained as a tourist attraction and training fac... More

Solitary-confinement cells at the West Virginia State Penitentiary, a ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Currently (as of 2015) the huge stone structure that housed hundreds of inmates is maintained as a tourist attraction and training fac... More

An emblem above the entrance to the West Virginia State Penitentiary, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Currently (as of 2015) the huge stone structure that housed hundreds of inmates is maintained as a tourist attraction and training fac... More

Bunk and toilet at the West Virginia State Penitentiary, a retired, go...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Currently (as of 2015) the huge stone structure that housed hundreds of inmates is maintained as a tourist attraction and training fac... More

Portion of a cellblock at the West Virginia State Penitentiary, a reti...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Currently (as of 2015) the huge stone structure that housed hundreds of inmates is maintained as a tourist attraction and training fac... More

Urinal and crude pipe fixtures at the West Virginia State Penitentiary...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Currently (as of 2015) the huge stone structure that housed hundreds of inmates is maintained as a tourist attraction and training fac... More

The wagon gate West Virginia State Penitentiary, a retired, gothic-sty...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Currently (as of 2015) the huge stone structure that housed hundreds of inmates is maintained as a tourist attraction and training fac... More

The West Virginia State Penitentiary, a retired, gothic-style prison i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Currently (as of 2015) the huge stone structure that housed hundreds of inmates is maintained as a tourist attraction and training fac... More

The West Virginia State Penitentiary, a retired, gothic-style prison i...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Urinal in an older prisoner's cell at the West Virginia State Penitent...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Currently (as of 2015) the huge stone structure that housed hundreds of inmates is maintained as a tourist attraction and training fac... More

Portion of a cellblock at the West Virginia State Penitentiary, a reti...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Currently (as of 2015) the huge stone structure that housed hundreds of inmates is maintained as a tourist attraction and training fac... More

Portion of a cellblock at the West Virginia State Penitentiary, a reti...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Currently (as of 2015) the huge stone structure that housed hundreds of inmates is maintained as a tourist attraction and training fac... More

Cellblock at the old Wyoming Territorial Prison, now a museum, in Lara...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Portion of a cellblock at the West Virginia State Penitentiary, a reti...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Currently (as of 2015) the huge stone structure that housed hundreds of inmates is maintained as a tourist attraction and training fac... More

Portion of a cellblock at the West Virginia State Penitentiary, a reti...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Currently (as of 2015) the huge stone structure that housed hundreds of inmates is maintained as a tourist attraction and training fac... More

Old Capitol Prison, Washington, D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic Capitol building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. The Old Capitol Prison, 1st and A Streets NE

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the capital at war. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0740 Title fr... More

Libby Prison - 19th century Virginia. Stereoscope card.

On verso: Published by Cook, No. 913 Main, St. Richmond, Va. From series: Views of Richmond and Vicinity, and mountain scenery of Virginia and West Va. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Libr... More

The Libby Prison George O. Ennis, photographer

Photograph shows men and a horse next to tents in front of Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: Earl Sheck, Oxford, Maryland, ... More

Washington, D.C. Soldier springing the trap; men in trees and Capitol ...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the execution of Captain Henry Wirz, November 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of C... More

Castle Thunder -- Confederate prison - 19th century Virginia.

On mount: Anderson's Stereoscopic Views, No. 913 Main, St. Richmond, Va. On verso: Published by Anderson, No. 913 Main, St. Richmond, Va. From series: Views of Richmond and Vicinity, and mountain scenery of Vir... More

Richmond, Virginia Front and side view of Libby Prison

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congres... More

Richmond, Virginia Castle Thunder, Cary Street

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congres... More

Richmond, Virginia Side view of Libby Prison

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congres... More

Washington, D.C. Hooded body of Captain Wirz hanging from the scaffold

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the execution of Captain Henry Wirz, November 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of C... More

Richmond, Virginia Side and rear view of Libby Prison

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congres... More

"Libby Prison." The only picture in existence. As it appeared August 2...

Print shows three men and a child standing in the foreground with tents labeled "C.S.A." immediately behind them and the Libby Prison building in the background. Printed on mount: Copyright, 1882, by J.L. Barl... More

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

On mount: American Views. Popular Series. Public domain image of 19th-century New York City architecture, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet

Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 06014, 06013. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. nos. 05932, 010408. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Akka (Acre, Accho). The crusader castle. Now the Palestine penitentiar...

Two plates form a single stereograph view; "A" is the left side and "B" is the right side. Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

South east view, New-York State Prison, 1814.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Prisons and prison reform - Samuel J. Tilden papers

The Samuel J. Tilden Papers is a collection of documents, correspondence, and other materials relating to Samuel J. Tilden (1814-1886), an American politician and lawyer. The Tilden Papers cover a wide range of... More

Washington, D.C. The Old Capitol Prison, 1st and A Streets NE

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the capital at war. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0740 Title fr... More

The Libby Prison George O. Ennis, photographer

Photograph shows men and a horse next to tents in front of Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: Earl Sheck, Oxford, Maryland, ... More

Richmond, Virginia Castle Thunder, Cary Street

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congres... More

Richmond, Virginia Side and rear view of Libby Prison

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congres... More

Washington, D.C. Hooded body of Captain Wirz hanging from the scaffold

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the execution of Captain Henry Wirz, November 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of C... More

Washington, D.C. Soldier springing the trap; men in trees and Capitol ...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the execution of Captain Henry Wirz, November 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of C... More

Richmond, Virginia Side view of Libby Prison

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congres... More

Washington, D.C. Reading the death warrant to Wirz on the scaffold

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the execution of Captain Henry Wirz, November 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of C... More