PRISON COLLECTION:“Lawman Holds Gun on Escaped Prisoners”(1947)
Lawman Holds Gun on Escaped Prisoners Canon City Colorado . Photo is dated 1947.
PRISON COLLECTION:“Death Row Inmate with Electric Chair”(1972)
Nashville TN –Death Row inmate who has lived in the shadow of death for two years,views the electric chair at the Tennessee MORE
PRESS COLLECTION:“Detroit Juvenile Detention Home”(1956)
Detroit Boys Juvenile Detention Home. Photo is dated Mar 16,1956. It shows boys sleeping on floor.
PRESS COLLECTION:“Governer Earl Warren &Folsom Prisoner”(1940′s)
Governer Warren &Folsom Prison Break,San Francisco Examiner,1943.
ACME NEWSPICTURES:“Al Capone &Family”(1930′s)
AL CAPONE’S BROTHER. UPI Telephoto,1938,with stamp for Acme Newspictures. Black and white photograph shows Ralph Capone,hiding his face,as he MORE
PRISON COLLECTION:“Bridewell Prison Break”(1964)
Bridewell Prison Break,Knotted Sheets,1964. Several inmates of the Cook County jail,also known as Bridewell Prison,escaped from the cells via knotted sheets MORE
PRISON COLLECTION:“Men watch Television”(1959)
Men watch Television while in US Penitentiary in Terre Haute,Indiana on August 7,1959.
PRISON COLLECTION:“Cook County Prison”(1944)
Rope hanging over a wall at Cook County Prison that some inmates used to escape with,January of 1944. A getaway car was waiting for MORE
PRISON COLLECTION:“Statesville Prison Joliet,Illinois” (1955-63)
Stateville Prison visitors filing into the visiting quarters,September 5,1963 in Joliet,Illinois.
Stateville Prison guard Aaron E. Carey MORE
DETROIT PUBLISHING COLLECTION:“A Southern Chain Gang” (1900)
Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company,1880-1920
PRISON COLLECTION:“CA State Prison at San Quentin CA.”(1930)
CA State Prison at San Quentin CA. Photo dated Apr 9,1930.
PRISON COLLECTION:“Indiana State Prison Guards on Strike”(1954)
Indiana State Prison Guards On Strike. 1954
FLORIDA COLLECTION:Jack Spottswood – “Sunbeam Prison Camp” (1950)
Man wearing barrel restraint while lying on ground Man at the Sunbeam Prison Camp Man wearing barrel restraint Men talking with man wearing MORE
CALIFORNIA COLLECTION:“San Quentin Prison” (1925-1935)
Images from The Bancroft Library. University of California,Berkeley.
