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Richmond, Virginia. Libby prison on Cary street

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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.

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.

[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...

Bar graph shows number of African American prisoners in jails and the types of crimes they committed. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Ne... More

Puck magazine cover - Jail the only remedy / Gallaway.

Illustration shows an automobile driver who broke the traffic laws and has been placed in jail with other criminals. Caption: Fines are a farce when dealing with the auto law breaker. Illus. in: Puck, v. 52, n... More

The sculptor's nightmare / motion picture

At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and bribes him to sculpt a bust of the individual favorite. Instead,... More

Becker on way to Sing Sing - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

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

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.

Miss Anne Martin, of Reno, Nevada, legislative chairman of the Nationa...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, three-quarter length, Anne Martin, facing forward, seated in chair, with body turned slightly to left, wearing a suit with open-collared bl... More

No. 825: The American Ambulance at Neuilly, France. No. 826: American ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Source of Original: Print from R.C. Magazine. Copyright released for Red Cross Slide Department. Possible alternate caption for no. 825: Warehouse at Berne. Fe... More

Baggage for Prison Special - Jackson Place Hdqtrs on Lafayette Sq.

Jail Christmas tree, 1919 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. VARIOUS VIEWS AT D.C. JAIL

Two women standing next to each other in front of a door, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, I... More

What Harry Sinclair may face. This is a typical cell in the District o...

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

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

Jail, Main Street, Knights Ferry, Stanislaus County, CA

Suggested address, Main Street, is not verifiable in documentation. Survey number: HABS CA-164

Jail, Courthouse Square, Hermitage, Hickory County, MO

Survey number: HABS MO-1266 Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Caught in the act., Washington, D.C. Aug. 14. William E. Raymond has b...

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Hays County Jail, San Marcos, Texas. Living quarters for the Deputy Sh...

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Jail. Silverton, Colorado - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a building. Office of War Information Photo...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

The Eastern State Penitentiary is a former American prison located on ...

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 penitentiary was operational from 1829 until 1971. ... More

Tools at the blacksmith shop of the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in th...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum showcases fifteen outdoor structures and West Texas artifacts that reach back to the late 19th century and the early 20th ... More

Outhouse door at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporate...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum showcases fifteen outdoor structures and West Texas artifacts that reach back to the late 19th century and the early 20th ... More

Wagon wheels against a building at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum showcases fifteen outdoor structures and West Texas artifacts that reach back to the late 19th century and the early 20th ... 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

Just about every New York City adult, and millions more nationwide who...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Old Cumberland County Prison, East High Street, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Photograph shows the Cumberland County Prison which began operating in 1854. It was designed by Philadelphia architect Edward Haviland. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Additional information ... More

Emmeline Pankhurst plans Hunger Strike

Emmeline Pankhurst vows to begin a hunger strike upon her return to England. In a response to a local suggestion that hunger strikes be carried on at home, Pankhurst stressed that it would only works after bein... More

Petersburg, Virginia. Warehouse used as a prison

Caption from negative sleeve: Prison, Petersburg, Va. Miller, vol. 3, p. 283. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3040A) and right (LC-B811-3040B) halves of a stereograph pair. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 186... More

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. 2056. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Crestline City Hall, Bucyrus & Thoman Streets, Crestline, Crawford Cou...

Significance: The Crestline City Hall has stood as a monument to the small central Ohio town's civic pride for 101 years. Built at the height of the City's heyday as a bustling railroad center, the structure wa... More

Old Jail Building, First & Mississippi Streets, Jonesboro, Union Count...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-62,FN-63, FN-66, FN-67 Survey number: HABS IL-233 Building/structure dates: 1872 Initial Construction

County Jail, 115 Market Street, Knoxville, Knox County, IL

Survey number: HABS IL-248-B Building/structure dates: 1874 Initial Construction

Caroline County Jail, Sheriff's House, 101 Gay Street, Denton, Carolin...

Significance: One of the oldest in the State of Maryland, the Caroline County Jail and Sheriff's House has been in continuous use as a jail since 1907 when it was built during a period of marked cultural, comme... More

Caroline County Jail, Sheriff's House, 101 Gay Street, Denton, Carolin...

Significance: One of the oldest in the State of Maryland, the Caroline County Jail and Sheriff's House has been in continuous use as a jail since 1907 when it was built during a period of marked cultural, comme... More

Zoar Jail, Foltz Street, Zoar, Tuscarawas County, OH

Survey number: HABS OH-292 Building/structure dates: 1825 Initial Construction

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Brig, Neville Way near Ninth Street at ...

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Naval Air Station Chase Field, Building 1042, Ofstie Road, .6 mile Sou...

Significance: Building 1042 (the Brig) is a small, three-celled jail constructed to hold naval personnel who committed relatively minor infractions of the military code. The brig is indicative of the everyday s... More

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

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Essex County Jail, Newark, New & Wilsey Streets, Newark, Essex County,...

Survey number: HABS NJ-758 Public domain photograph - New Jersey, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Montgomery County Jail, Washington & Spring Streets, Crawfordsville, M...

Significance: The Montgomery County Jail, the first of six rotary jails built in the Midwest during the second half of the nineteenth century, represents a significant attempt to answer the problem of human inc... More

Montgomery County Jail, Washington & Spring Streets, Crawfordsville, M...

Significance: The Montgomery County Jail, the first of six rotary jails built in the Midwest during the second half of the nineteenth century, represents a significant attempt to answer the problem of human inc... More

Montgomery County Jail, Washington & Spring Streets, Crawfordsville, M...

Significance: The Montgomery County Jail, the first of six rotary jails built in the Midwest during the second half of the nineteenth century, represents a significant attempt to answer the problem of human inc... More

Thebes Courthouse, Thebes, Alexander County, IL

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Chester County Prison, 235 West Market Street, West Chester, Chester C...

Significance: This building is a good example of prison architecture of the middle third of the nineteenth century and was built in the best possible manner from the design of Thomas U. Walter. Survey number:... More

Chester County Prison, 235 West Market Street, West Chester, Chester C...

Significance: This building is a good example of prison architecture of the middle third of the nineteenth century and was built in the best possible manner from the design of Thomas U. Walter. Survey number:... More

Chester County Prison, 235 West Market Street, West Chester, Chester C...

Significance: This building is a good example of prison architecture of the middle third of the nineteenth century and was built in the best possible manner from the design of Thomas U. Walter. Survey number:... More

Richmond, Virginia. Castle Thunder. (Converted tobacco warehouse for p...

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Albemarle County Jail, 409 East High Street, Charlottesville, Charlott...

1996 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The Ablemarle County Jail, located one block north of Charlottesville's Courthouse Square, was constructed to replace an earlier jail building whi... More

Albemarle County Jail, 409 East High Street, Charlottesville, Charlott...

1996 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The Ablemarle County Jail, located one block north of Charlottesville's Courthouse Square, was constructed to replace an earlier jail building whi... More

Requa House, 575 South Broadway, Tarrytown, Westchester County, NY

Significance: Probably built during the first quarters of the 19th century by a descendent of Captain Glode Requa Jr., who served during the Revolutionary War and was taken prisoner. The house is located on or ... More

Fort Buford, Old Headquarters Site, Buford, Williams County, ND

Significance: This was a very important place in the history of the West, not only as a place where prisoners from the Confederate Army were put on duty fighting Indians, but in later years the place where Sitt... More

Minidoka Relocation Center Warehouse, 111 South Fir Street, Shoshone, ...

Significance: This warehouse was one of six hundred buildings constructed at the Minidoka Relocation Camp for the internment of people of Japanese descent after the bombing of Pearl Harbor brought the United St... More

New Haven City Hall & Courthouse, Church Street, between Court & Elm S...

Significance: The City Hall is one of the earliest examples of polychromatic Italian Gothic Revival style in the United States. The Courthouse, adjoining City Hall, was built 10 years later in the same style. ... More

New Haven City Hall & Courthouse, Church Street, between Court & Elm S...

Significance: The City Hall is one of the earliest examples of polychromatic Italian Gothic Revival style in the United States. The Courthouse, adjoining City Hall, was built 10 years later in the same style. ... More

Sacramento City Hall, 915 I Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Significance: Sacramento's City Hall was completed in 1911 on what was then the fringe area of the old commercial district. The new City Hall structure was the first municipal building in Sacramento to house a... More

Fort Brown, Commissary & Guard House, May Street & Gorgas Drive vicini...

Significance: Building 88 was constructed around 1903 as a commissary. After the Battle of Matamoros in June 1913 the building was used to hold Mexican insurgents as prisoners. It has a long history of adaptive... More

Fort Brown, Commissary & Guard House, May Street & Gorgas Drive vicini...

Significance: Building 88 was constructed around 1903 as a commissary. After the Battle of Matamoros in June 1913 the building was used to hold Mexican insurgents as prisoners. It has a long history of adaptive... More

Philadelphia County Prison, Tenth Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...

Significance: One of the first major designs of the great American architect, Thomas U. Walter, FAIA, and an early use of the Pennsylvania system of solitary confinement for prisoners developed in the Philadelp... More

Philadelphia County Prison, Tenth Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...

Significance: One of the first major designs of the great American architect, Thomas U. Walter, FAIA, and an early use of the Pennsylvania system of solitary confinement for prisoners developed in the Philadelp... More

Cuyahoga County Criminal Court Building, 1560 East Twenty-first Street...

Significance: The Cuyahoga County Criminal Court Building is a fine example of the Art Deco Style as interpreted in Cleveland during the late 1920s and 1930s. The interior contained a restrained, but elegant oc... More

City Hall & Opera House, Rouse Avenue & East Main Street, Bozeman, Gal...

Significance: In May 1887 a special election was held to decide the issue of building a new city hall and opera house. The issue passed on a vote of 98 to 22. The building, which required three years to compl... More

Wyoming Territorial Penitentiary, North side of State Route 130, West ...

Survey number: HABS WY-76

Wyoming Territorial Penitentiary, North side of State Route 130, West ...

Survey number: HABS WY-76 Public domain photograph of attic, house frame, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wyoming Territorial Penitentiary, North side of State Route 130, West ...

Survey number: HABS WY-76

Major Andre House (Prison), Main Street, Tappan, Rockland County, NY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-31, FN-46, FN-48 Survey number: HABS NY-4-18 Building/structure dates: ca. 1755 Initial Construction

Third Judicial District Courthouse, 425 Avenue of the Americas, New Yo...

Significance: Originally the Third Judicial District Courthouse was part of a complex which included a police court, jail, and markets. An outstanding example of civic design, the complex occupied the entire tr... More

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

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

Kent County Courthouse, Jail, Cross Street, Chestertown, Kent County, ...

Survey number: HABS MD-968-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 90, East Avenue between North Avenue...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for construction of ten large manufacturing shops, five on each side of the island's majo... More

Baltimore City Jail, Gateway & Warden's House, 400 East Madison Street...

Survey number: HABS MD-184-A Public domain photograph - historic landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baltimore City Jail, Gateway & Warden's House, 400 East Madison Street...

Survey number: HABS MD-184-A Public domain image of 17th-18th-century architecture, palace, castle, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old Market House, North Commerce & Troy Streets, Galena, Jo Daviess Co...

Survey number: HABS IL-149 Building/structure dates: 1846 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1933 Subsequent Work

Old Market House, North Commerce & Troy Streets, Galena, Jo Daviess Co...

Survey number: HABS IL-149 Building/structure dates: 1846 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1933 Subsequent Work

Old Market House, North Commerce & Troy Streets, Galena, Jo Daviess Co...

Survey number: HABS IL-149 Building/structure dates: 1846 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1933 Subsequent Work

Charles Street Jail Complex, 215 Charles Street, Boston, Suffolk Count...

Significance: "The Suffolk County Jail has major national architectural significance as the prime institutional example of the Boston Granite Style of the mid-19th century. The design was executed by one of th... More

Charles Street Jail Complex, 215 Charles Street, Boston, Suffolk Count...

Significance: "The Suffolk County Jail has major national architectural significance as the prime institutional example of the Boston Granite Style of the mid-19th century. The design was executed by one of th... More

Bolton Hall, 10110 Commerce Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, C...

Significance: Built in 1913, first used as a club house by "Little Landers," owners of small plots of land bought for $5 down after the land was subdivided, and later served as Tujunga City Hall, with an additi... More

Town of Chisana, Chisana, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK

Significance: During the final years of the Alaska Gold Rush, Peter "North Pole" Nelson and Billy James discovered gold on Bonanza Creek, seven miles east of Chisana. This discovery in the spring of 1913 spurr... More

Chanute Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, Curtiss Street at Galaxy S...

Significance: In response to massive pre-World War II mobilization, the Fire and Guard House was built in 1940 to house two fire trucks, an ambulance, a crash truck, 44 prisoners, 10 firemen, and 11 guards. The... More

Debtor's Prison, State Route 764, Accomac, Accomack County, Virginia

Significance: Originally built about 1785 as a residence for the jailor. Used for confinement of debtors in 1824, and continued as debtors' prison until 1849. Survey number: HABS VA-623 Building/structure da... More

Debtor's Prison, State Route 764, Accomac, Accomack County, Virginia

Significance: Originally built about 1785 as a residence for the jailor. Used for confinement of debtors in 1824, and continued as debtors' prison until 1849. Survey number: HABS VA-623 Building/structure da... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Camp Tulelake, Shop-Storage Building, West Side of Hill Road, 2 miles ...

Survey number: HABS CA-2683-C Building/structure dates: 1935 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1938 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 100002176

General Cyrus French House, Kingstown Road (State Route 138) & College...

Significance: At the time of the HABS documentation (1940), the two and one-half story, clapboard and shingled house was in very poor condition and unoccupied. There was a fire the following year. The Federal... More

General Cyrus French House, Kingstown Road (State Route 138) & College...

Significance: At the time of the HABS documentation (1940), the two and one-half story, clapboard and shingled house was in very poor condition and unoccupied. There was a fire the following year. The Federal... More

Gaol, in Walnut Street, Philadelphiadelphia

Print showing a 10-horse team moving wooden building mounted on wheels. The two-story structure being moved was a former blacksmith shop that was purchased by the Rev. Richard Allen, who moved it to Sixth and L... More

Halifax County Clerk's Office, King & Market Streets, Halifax, Halifax...

Significance: Part of the historic colonial government complex of Halifax. Built approximately 1758, the original structure was destroyed by fire and replaced, in 1832, by the present fireproof building. The Co... More

U.S. Branch Mint, 400 Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, L...

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Passaic County Jail & Sheriff's House, Main Street, Paterson, Passaic ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-288 Survey number: HABS NJ-381 Building/structure dates: 1838 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1855 Subsequent Work

Haven Warehouse, Van Norden & Main Streets, Washington, Beaufort Count...

Significance: One of four original warehouses built in Washington to handle West Indies' trade. Used also as a prison during the Civil War. Survey number: HABS NC-209 Building/structure dates: 1820-1825 Initi... More

Henderson County Court House, First & Main Streets, Henderson, Henders...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-18 Survey number: HABS KY-20-18 Building/structure dates: 1843 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1858 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More

San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...

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San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...

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San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...

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San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...

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San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...

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San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin,...

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