View of Sing Sing prison grounds with a wall, a bridge structure and the Hudson River and hills beyond. — Open the full imageJPG, 1024 × 741 px, 0.2 MB

Sing Sing prison, Bain News Service, about 1910 (Library of Congress)

Bain News Service photograph of Sing Sing prison at Ossining, New York, issued between about 1910 and 1915. The record names no case. A copy is stored here.

Date: 1910
Kind: photograph
Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Rights: The Library of Congress item record states: "No known restrictions on publication." Collection: George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Call number: LC-B2- 2778-4 [P&P] LOT 10877 (Corresponding print). Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ggbain-13766 (digital file from original negative).

The Library of Congress titles this George Grantham Bain Collection photograph “Sing Sing” and describes it as a view of the prison at Ossining, New York, issued by Bain News Service between about 1910 and 1915. The Library gives 1910 as the date.

The record names no inmate. It is a view of the building, filed with the other Sing Sing scenes of this period, including the 1912 photographs of men taken to the prison.

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