# Entrance to the federal penitentiary, Atlanta, 1910 (Bain News Service, Library of Congress)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2002698072-atlanta-penitentiary-entrance-1910/

Bain News Service photograph dated 1910 of the entrance to the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, a walled gatehouse with corner turrets. Reproduction number LC-USZ62-75939.

The Library's record dates the photograph 1910, with the title and other information transcribed from the caption card and the item. The scan shows a concrete gatehouse wall with corner turrets and an arched entrance, with the caption "U.S. Penitentiary, Atlanta" lettered at the lower edge. The caption card's tracings include "Prisoners... Ga. Atlanta 1910."

The Atlanta penitentiary was one of the three authorized by the Three Prisons Act of 1891, according to the Bureau of Prisons ([history](/items/bop-history-federal-prison-system/)). The Department of Justice album of the same penitentiary is [filed separately](/items/nara-518093-doj-album-atlanta-leavenworth-series/), and Capone's 1933 [commitment to Atlanta](/items/nara-55312091-capone-commitment-atlanta-1933/) is a federal court paper.

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (George Grantham Bain Collection): https://www.loc.gov/item/2002698072/