# United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: East Sally Port, Showing Steel Doors (Department of Justice album)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99904401-atlanta-east-sally-port/

A mounted photograph from the Department of Justice album of the east sally port at Atlanta, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925, with its steel doors and a rail track in the foreground.

The catalog title is "United States Penitentiary - Atlanta, Georgia: East Sally Port, Showing Steel Doors." It is one mounted print from the Department of Justice album of views of the Atlanta and Leavenworth penitentiaries, two of the three penitentiaries that, according to the Bureau of Prisons, the Three Prisons Act of 1891 authorized. The photograph shows a heavy concrete wall with a barred steel gate, with a railway track running toward it.

The mount carries a typed caption in English and Spanish; the English line reads "East Sally Port, Showing Steel Doors." The catalog dates the series "ca. 1900 - ca. 1925" and the item carries no date of its own, so no year is claimed for this view. The local identifier is 60-AL-06; the original is a large JPEG of about 36 MB, and the stored copy is smaller.

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/99904401
- National Archives series: Album of Views of the Penitentiaries at Atlanta and Fort Leavenworth (NAID 518093): https://catalog.archives.gov/id/518093