prisoners

By the United States in Congress assembled, August 7, 1782 : Resolved,...

Six resolutions replenishing the strength of the senior regiments and retiring the surplus of officers, especially in the southern army. Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, sec. Imprint supplied ... More

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

Plaza del Cerro, State Routes 76 & 4 vicinity, Chimayo, Rio Arriba Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-23 Survey number: HABS NM-128 Building/structure dates: before 1740 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1813-1816 Subsequent Work

Convicts purchasing provisions from villagers

Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

[Chattanooga, Tenn. Confederate prisoners at railroad depot]

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of the Battle of Chattanooga, September-November 1863. After Rosecrans' debacle at Chickamauga, September 19-20, 1863, Bragg's army occupied the mountai... More

Bronson Howard's greater Shenandoah during American Civil War

Caption: Col. West, I command you, search the prisoner! Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cin'ti & N.Y." Management, Jacob Litt. N.Y. 8130. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Libr... More

Old Beaufort Jail, Courthouse Square on Cedar Street, Beaufort, Carter...

Significance: Built in 1836 by Elijah White Hurst, located on the northeast side of the courthouse square. The long porch which originally existed on the front of the building has since been removed. There was ... More

Old Beaufort Jail, Courthouse Square on Cedar Street, Beaufort, Carter...

Significance: Built in 1836 by Elijah White Hurst, located on the northeast side of the courthouse square. The long porch which originally existed on the front of the building has since been removed. There was ... More

Old Beaufort Jail, Courthouse Square on Cedar Street, Beaufort, Carter...

Significance: Built in 1836 by Elijah White Hurst, located on the northeast side of the courthouse square. The long porch which originally existed on the front of the building has since been removed. There was ... More

Old Beaufort Jail, Courthouse Square on Cedar Street, Beaufort, Carter...

Significance: Built in 1836 by Elijah White Hurst, located on the northeast side of the courthouse square. The long porch which originally existed on the front of the building has since been removed. There was ... 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

Charleston County Jail, 21 Magazine Street, Charleston, Charleston Cou...

Significance: Built in 1802, the Charleston District Jail was the result of a state effort to erect a modern structure that incorporated recent reforms in the national criminal code. The Robert Mills addition t... 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

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

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

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

Non-commissioned officers, 19th Iowa Infantry, exchanged prisoners fro...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Libby Prison, Union prisoners at Richmond, Virginia from nature by Act...

Print shows the interior of Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia with Union officers and soldiers sitting or standing in groups. Brigadier General August Willich (1810-1878), captured at the Battle of Stones River,... More

Point Lookout, Md. View of Hammond Genl. Hospital & U.S. genl. depot f...

Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 257 Sixty-three sites are listed in the margin and keyed by number to the appropriate position in the view. Inset: Headquarters of the general commanding St. Mary's... More

"Trading buttons for peppers" / Jas. E. Taylor 96.

Photograph of drawing by James E. Taylor showing prisoners at Andersonville Prison surrounding a Confederate officer and exchanging a button for a pepper as other prisoners behind the officer cut buttons from h... More

The boss of the bosses / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows a fireworks display that forms a chariot or wagon labeled "McKinleyism" driven by "boss" Mark A. "Hanna" with Thomas C. "Platt", Matthew S. "Quay", and Joseph H. "Manley" as chained, submissive, pri... More

Some of China's trouble-makers - "Boxer" prisoners captured and brough...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

German prisoners - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

German prisoners, Verdun - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

English prisoners at work near Doberitz

Photograph shows English prisoners of war working in fields near the prisoner of war camp at Döberitz (now Dallgow-Döberitz), Germany during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Prisoners, bringing in wood, Zossen

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

Suffrage Prisoners Leaving D.C. Prison

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members leaving a prison building. Warden Zinkham (left).

Unidentified African American prisoner-of-war in uniform and helmet wi...

Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073) Purchased from: Orton and Pat Begner, Rochester, New York, via Civil War Collectables, Kendall, New York, February 2017.

The town of Vaux, reduced by American artillery fire, 600 prisoners ca...

Photographer's address: 613 14th St., Wash., D.C. No. 199. Gift; Breckenridge Long; 1953.

[German officers heading a line of 600 prisoners captured near Jericho...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Tonhalle ... Ausstellung von Arbeiten der in der Schweiz internierten ...

Poster shows a pensive German soldier resting his head on his fist. Text announces an exhibition of artwork by German prisoners of war held in Switzerland. Location, times, and entrance fee included. Forms part... More

[African American prisoners at compound no. 1, Angola, Louisiana ( Lea...

Title and date devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Handwritten on back: "Angola, Louisiana"; "N66-1"; "N67-1." Forms part of: Lomax collection of photographs depicting fol... More

A group of men standing next to each other. Great Depression FFSA / OW...

Public domain photograph of Georgia in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Packages for prisoners of war and internees. A Red Cross Canteen worke...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mrs. Evelyn Hauser, Red Corss nurse, prepares a volunteer blood donor ...

Public domain photograph of nurses, hospital, medical care, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Axis propaganda. Here are five of more than one hundred exhibits which...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Men caught in raids by federal agents leave prisoners' van at U.S. Cou...

NYWT&S staff photograph. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Help free Olga Talamante and all political prisoners in Argentina

Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. H13. 1975

Group of Union officers who escaped from Confed. prison at Columbia, S...

Photograph shows group portrait of former prisoners of war and guides taken upon their arrival at Knoxville, Tennessee, on January 1, 1865. Three of the prisoners of war, Capt. Mark M. Bassett of Co. E, 53rd Il... More

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Three Confederate prisoners, Confederate Stat...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Gettysburg, June-July, 1863. Stereo filed in LOT 4181. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, ... More

Benjamin Wood to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, August 01, 1861 (Wants pe...

Chewacla Limeworks, Limekiln Road, Chewacla, Lee County, AL

Survey number: HABS AL-509 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). Stockade on Morris Island where...

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

[Design drawing for stained glass window "The 7 Corporal Works of Merc...

Public domain photograph of stained glass design, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Confederate prisoners at Belle Plain Landing, Virginia, captured with ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Half-length portrait of a man, dressed in convict clothing, facing fr...

Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

Released Prisoners - The dance upon the deck of the N.Y.

Harper's article assigned this scene to the deck of the Confederate "Star of the South". Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed below title on verso: to be returned to A.R. Waud. Reference print available in Civil... More

St. John's College. U.S. General Hospital Div. No. 2. Annapolis, Md. P...

Photograph shows Private Hattle undressed and emaciated. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). pp/liljpaper

Cherokee National Penitentiary, 124 East Choctaw Street, Tahlequah, Ch...

Significance: The third and final addition to the permanent buildings of the Cherokee National Government, the structure served until statehood as the center of law enforcement in the Nation. As such it is an ... More

["Lightnin'" Washington, an African American prisoner, in the prison h...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Typed on back: "4. Lightning, prison hospital, Darrington State Farm, April, 1934. See A-8, 182 H." Forms part of: Lomax photogr... More

The spirit of Tweed is mighty still "...and even yet you don't know w...

Cartoon drawing shows a ghostly William Marcy "Boss" Tweed standing in prison with a diamond shining bright despite his prison uniform and the fact that he had died eight years previously. He leans against a pl... More

The spirit of Tweed is mighty still "...and even yet you don't know w...

Cartoon drawing shows a ghostly William Marcy "Boss" Tweed standing in prison with a diamond shining bright despite his prison uniform and the fact that he had died eight years previously. He leans against a pl... More

The Bostonians in distress, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a re-drawn and reversed image of the famous British political cartoon where Bostonians held captive in a cage are suspended from the "Liberty Tree." Three British sailors standing in a boat feed the... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Brig, South Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County...

Significance: Built in 1908, the small building with a corbeled brick cornice served as a prison until circa 1964. It is now a minimum security correctional center. // Constructed in 1908 as the Brig, Building... More

Murtaugh Bridge, Murtaugh, Twin Falls County, ID

Significance: This Pratt truss bridge was constructed in the early years of the twentieth century to provide north-south access across the Snake River. The need for River crossings increased as development of ... More

Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). Stockade for Confederate prison...

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

Evangeline Rice and Goodwin's American opera bouffe.

Caption: Prison scene. Created by "Boston Job Print." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

The Sun, [newspaper]. New York, April 19, 1865.

Black mourning border employed.

The Union & rebel officers taking the last drink after signing the pap...

Group of full-length images of officers standing and drinking in foreground, dwellings in background. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: scene on the beach Fredericksburg Va. Friday. Inscribed ... More

Lt. Bishop A.P.M. receiving prisoners in the room in Libby where our s...

Signed lower right A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: The Union soldiers were received in this office, searched, money etc. confiscated and then sent to join their fellow prisoners. At t... More

Convicts purchasing provisions from villagers

Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

Alcatraz, Industries Building, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, San...

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

[James Baker (Iron Head), head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, S...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Handwritten on back: "James Baker (Iron Head) Sugarland, Tex. June 1934." Forms part of: Lomax photographs depicting folk musicia... More

[It was half-past four when the sentence was pronounced upon her and s...

Soldier with bayonet leading convicted woman (Marie Antoinette?) out of French Revolutionary courtroom. (DLC/PP-1934:0097). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "... 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

Where prisoners were exchanged - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing three canal boats docked at the wharf where Union prisoners were exchanged for Confederate prisoners at Aiken's Landing, Virginia. The Union double-turreted monitor U.S.S. Onondaga is in the... 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

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Jean Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse - Napoléon a Sainte-Hélène Paul Delar...

Print shows Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, full-length portrait, facing front, sitting on rocks on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. Signed on stone on lower l... More

Tecumseh saving prisoners - A black and white drawing of a man on a ho...

Print shows Tecumseh shielding prisoners from another Native American on horseback wielding a tomahawk during the War of 1812; another Native is about to scalp a dead soldier. Entered according to act of Congr... More

The War in America: Union troops attacking Confederate prisoners in th...

Wood engraving in The Illustrated London News, 14 September 1861, p. 283. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: DC, Washington Misc. 1861; Civil War Prisoners; She... 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.

Butler's victims of Fort St. Philip

Union General Benjamin F. Butler with Confederate prisoners at Fort St. Philip near New Orleans, Louisiana. Drawn and published by Adalbert Volck. Illus. in: V. Blada's war sketches. London [i.e. Baltimore], 18... More

Caricature, "Next!" / Gillam., public domain cartoon image

Illustration shows a view inside a "Prison Barber-Shop" with two men labeled "Budensiek" and "J.D. Fish", wearing prison stripes and "Close Crop" haircuts by the prison barber, who is holding a shaving mug labe... 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.

Chain gang prisoners - one shaving another; one sharpening tools on gr...

15620 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Cuba: At the death line, Santiago, where prisoners were shot

Rear view of four men in civilian clothes, kneeling with hands behind their backs. Copyright by Griffith & Griffith.

Carl A. Haswin and his company in A lion's heart

D787 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: It is him for her. Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print., Cin. & N.Y." No. 4261. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library ... More

Lisbon Jesuit's prisoners - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Lost in the desert the great dramatic spectacle : written by Owen Davi...

D13751 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Last of the "Mary Jane." Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print., Cincinnati & New York." No. 4719. Forms part of: Theatrical poster c... More

El prisionero de San Juan de Ulúa

Broadside has a masthead illustration and a decorative border separating the text. The text consists of two songs: "The prisoner of San Juan of Ulúa" which conveys the longing of a prisoner who wants to be set ... More