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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.

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

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

[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

Florence military prison series--"Washing up" / J.E. Taylor.

Prisoners of war being washed in large tubs. 13490 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 56. Photographic reproduction of watercolor by James E. Taylor, 1897.

Set of religious paintings of Christ's passion, by Kosheleff, in Russi...

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

City Prison, New York City - New York City Architecture

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

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

Photograph shows prisoners getting food at Zossen prisoner of war camp, Wünsdorf, Zossen, Germany, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Sing Sing Prison, new electrocution chamber

Photograph shows empty room with electric chair placed in center. J209826 U.S. Copyright Office. Title on verso: New electrocution chamber Sing Sing Prison. Photo by T. Fred Robbins, Ossining, New York. Title... More

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.

Miss Kate Heffelfinger of Shamokin, Pennsylvania A picket who served t...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Kate Heffelfinger, facing right, with chin resting on arm bent at elbow, wearing a v-neck dress with suffrage prisoner ... More

View of packing room at Bumplitz near Berne, Switzerland, from which s...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC, American Red Cross Com. to Switzerland. Group title: Prisoner's Relief. Gift... More

[Picketers with signs: Soldiers who fought in the World War demand the...

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

B. Ogden Chisolm, recently appointed Internat'l Prison Commissioner by...

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

Long queue of Moslem [i.e., Muslim] Arabs visiting friends & relatives...

Public domain photograph related to Israel, Palestine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portraits of African Americans, including Moses Platt, taken during r...

Title and date devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Handwritten on back: "Baptist Congregation, Alma Plantation, False River, July, 1934, N47"; "(black woman) Alma Plantati... More

Convicts from the Greene County prison camp at the funeral of their wa...

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Christiansted, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. Walls of the prison

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

Toussaint L'Ouverture meurt dans la prison...

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

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

"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

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

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Canteen & Brig, Railroad Avenue near Eight...

Significance: Building 934, built in 1943, is considered significant for its association with U.S. Naval history and the Mare Island Naval Shipyard (MINSY), the first naval installation on the west coast. Porti... More

Fort McHenry National Monument & Historic Shrine, East Fort Avenue at ...

Significance: The pentagonal fort is the most important, least changed, surviving feature of the historic bombardment of Fort McHenry, September 13-14, 1814. The sally port, casemates, and guard rooms were bui... More

Fort McHenry National Monument & Historic Shrine, East Fort Avenue at ...

Significance: The pentagonal fort is the most important, least changed, surviving feature of the historic bombardment of Fort McHenry, September 13-14, 1814. The sally port, casemates, and guard rooms were bui... More

Fort Lawton, Guard House, Discovery Park, Seattle, King County, WA

Significance: The only non-residential building on the post that was always used for its original purpose. Architecturally intact. Demonstrates the most extensive use of embossed metal that remains on the pos... 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

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...

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

[Prison cell block, man playing organ, prisoners sitting on bench behi...

Title devised by cataloger. No accession number. No publication information. Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). BAR updated record 1989-1994.

Libby again. Rebel soldiers waiting for accommodations in that Hotel

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed left margin: Lower half whitewashed. Inscribed above image; Dimensions 150 by 190. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.502) Reference ... More

Clara Barton Papers: Subject File, 1861-1952; Women's Reformatory Pris...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... 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 McCoy, Building No. T-2305, Approximately 700' West of Building T...

Significance: This structure is the only Prisoners and Guards Mess that was built at Fort McCoy (then known as Camp McCoy) as a result of the mobilization effort that was undertaken by the United States during ... More

Fort Des Moines Historic Complex, Building Nos. 65-66, Des Moines, Pol...

Significance: This two-story building stood on the west end of the line of barracks fronting on Gruber Street and the south side of the parade ground. Virtually identical in all respects to the other structure... More

Fort Des Moines Historic Complex, Building Nos. 65-66, Des Moines, Pol...

Significance: This two-story building stood on the west end of the line of barracks fronting on Gruber Street and the south side of the parade ground. Virtually identical in all respects to the other structure... More

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

Survey number: HABS WY-76

Clara Barton Papers: Subject File, 1861-1952; Women's Reformatory Pris...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... 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

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

Passmore Williamson, in Moyamensing Prison for alledged contempt of co...

An unusual informal portrait of the secretary of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, seated in a prison cell. Williamson was sentenced on July 22, 1855, to imprisonment for his "false return" (i.e., evasive tes... More

Castillo de San Marcos, 1 Castillo Drive, Saint Augustine, St. Johns C...

Significance: The star fort and its moat and outworks were built to protect Spanish territory in Florida from attacks by the English. Castillo de San Marcos is the oldest masonry fort in the continental U.S. ... More

New Jersey State Prison, Second & Federal Streets, Trenton, Mercer Cou...

Significance: Built between 1833 and 1836, the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton was an extremely significant work of English architect John Haviland, who was known for his designs of prisons. This New Jersey ... More

New Jersey State Prison, Second & Federal Streets, Trenton, Mercer Cou...

Significance: Built between 1833 and 1836, the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton was an extremely significant work of English architect John Haviland, who was known for his designs of prisons. This New Jersey ... More

New Jersey State Prison, Second & Federal Streets, Trenton, Mercer Cou...

Significance: Built between 1833 and 1836, the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton was an extremely significant work of English architect John Haviland, who was known for his designs of prisons. This New Jersey ... More

Camp Tulelake, Mess Hall, West Side of Hill Road, 2 miles South of Sta...

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

Old Country Jail, Village Green, Paris, Oxford County, ME

Suggested address, Village Green, is not verifiable in documentation. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-30 Survey number: HABS ME-37 Building/structure dates: 1822- 1828 Initial... More

Mount Gleason Nike Missile Site, Angeles National Forest, South of Sol...

Significance: The Mt. Gleason facility is significant for several reasons. It was the first Nike unit planned and constructed in the Angeles National Forest, and it operated for the longest period of time amon... More

Mount Gleason Nike Missile Site, Angeles National Forest, South of Sol...

Significance: The Mt. Gleason facility is significant for several reasons. It was the first Nike unit planned and constructed in the Angeles National Forest, and it operated for the longest period of time amon... More

Mount Gleason Nike Missile Site, Angeles National Forest, South of Sol...

Significance: The Mt. Gleason facility is significant for several reasons. It was the first Nike unit planned and constructed in the Angeles National Forest, and it operated for the longest period of time amon... More

Mount Gleason Nike Missile Site, Angeles National Forest, South of Sol...

Significance: The Mt. Gleason facility is significant for several reasons. It was the first Nike unit planned and constructed in the Angeles National Forest, and it operated for the longest period of time amon... More

Alcatraz, Warden's House, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, San Fran...

Survey number: HABS CA-1792-B National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76000209

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

Fort Delaware, Sea Wall, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle C...

Significance: Fort Delaware served as the primary defense of the Delaware River from the second quarter of the 19th century until the start of World War II. The Fort played an important role during the Civil W... 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

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

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

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

Photo shows Pvt. Isaiah G. Bowker (d. 1864), Co. B, 9th Maine Vols. at the U.S. General Hospital Div. no. 1, Annapolis, Maryland. Source: U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, 2013. No. 5524. Erroneous capt... More

[Two prisoners in shackles] - Public domain portrait photograph

Two men standing next to each other in front of a wall. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hale Paahao (Prison), Wainee & Prison Roads, Lahaina, Maui County, HI

Survey number: HABS HI-37 Public domain photograph of wooden church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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

Public domain photograph of window, architectural element, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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

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

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

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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

Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

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

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a commercial or residential multi-story building, condominium, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a commercial or residential multi-story building, condominium, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Two unidentified convicts, one of whom is playing the guitar and look...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Handwritten on back: "poss. Leadbelly"; Angola, Louisiana, July, 1934; "Huddie Leadbetter". Forms part of: Lomax collection of ph... More

Halifax County Jail, King Street, Halifax, Halifax County, NC

Significance: The Old Gaol (Jail) was a proud member of the historic colonial governmental complex of Halifax. Built approximately 1758, the Jail and the County Clerk's Office are the only 2 remaining structure... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, ...

Significance: The Fire and Guard House, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, forms an integral part of MacDill Air Force Base's historic character.... More

Courthouse Group Area Survey, U.S. Route 13, Eastville, Northampton Co...

Significance: Local government began on the Eastern Shore late in 1632 with the commissioners (or justices, as they later came to be known) meeting as a court. They gathered in homes of individual members or in... More

Louisiana State Prison Store, 703 Laurel Street, Baton Rouge, East Bat...

Significance: The Prison Store is the only remaining building of the state penitentiary complex, located in Baton Rouge from the late 1830s to the early 1900s. Survey number: HABS LA-1140 Building/structure d... More

Louisiana State Prison Store, 703 Laurel Street, Baton Rouge, East Bat...

Significance: The Prison Store is the only remaining building of the state penitentiary complex, located in Baton Rouge from the late 1830s to the early 1900s. Survey number: HABS LA-1140 Building/structure d... More

Louisiana State Prison Store, 703 Laurel Street, Baton Rouge, East Bat...

Significance: The Prison Store is the only remaining building of the state penitentiary complex, located in Baton Rouge from the late 1830s to the early 1900s. Survey number: HABS LA-1140 Building/structure d... More

[Houdini, the Handcuff King and Prison Breaker, performs for Pathe Frè...

Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in Budapest in 1874. He was one of the most famous and successful magicians of his time, known for his spectacular escape acts and death-de... More

A Siberian etape or exile station house

An etape (road prison) for convicts on the road from Barnaul to Krasno i arsk. Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

Cahokia Courthouse, Jackson Park, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Nitrate negatives. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-36 Survey number: HABS IL-26-31-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1716- ca. 1790 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ... More

Burlington County Prison, 128 High Street, Mount Holly, Burlington Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-191 Survey number: HABS NJ-340 Building/structure dates: 1810 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 86003558