# Alcatraz serving counter, 24 June 1957: "After count is secure, culinary employees can eat" (National Archives)

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Bureau of Prisons photograph at Alcatraz dated 24 June 1957 of men in white uniforms at a serving counter. The catalog's caption reads that culinary employees can eat after the count is secure.

The catalog gives the original caption as "After count is secure, culinary employees can eat" and the date as 24 June 1957. The photograph shows men in white uniforms and caps standing at a steel serving counter behind a barred screen, with a menu board above the counter and an urn at the left. The catalog does not name a photographer. The local identifier, taken from the image file name, is 129-G-177-21.

The photograph names no individual. It is the companion of [the dining-room view](/items/nara-280956858-alcatraz-dining-room-1957/) taken the same day.

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/280956861
- National Archives series: Photographs Illustrating the Facilities and Activities of the Bureau of Prisons (NAID 532602): https://catalog.archives.gov/id/532602