Record
Finding aid
1900/1925
National Archives Catalog
Album of Views of the Penitentiaries at Atlanta, Georgia and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas (National Archives series)
National Archives series of 41 mounted photographs from Department of Justice records, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925, of the Atlanta and Leavenworth penitentiaries. Nine are filed here.
- Date
- 1900/1925
- Kind
- finding-aid
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- NAID
- 518093
- Rights
- A description of a series created by the Department of Justice (Record Group 60), a United States government record, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The catalog marks use and access "Unrestricted."
The series is an album of 41 photographs (the count the catalog search returned) of the Atlanta and Leavenworth penitentiaries, two of the three penitentiaries authorized by the Three Prisons Act of 1891 according to the Bureau of Prisons. The views show construction phases, interior and exterior scenes and a few photographs of prisoners. Each mounted print carries a bilingual English and Spanish caption. The catalog dates the series “ca. 1900 - ca. 1925”; the individual items carry no date.
Filed here: at Leavenworth, a bird’s-eye view, the northeast cell building, a view of cells, an isolation cell and a guard tower; at Atlanta, a panorama, the east cell house corridor, the east sally port and the prison gateway.
