# United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: Bullet-proof Guard Tower (Department of Justice album)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99904447-leavenworth-guard-tower/

A mounted photograph from the Department of Justice album of a guard tower at Leavenworth, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925, with wall construction visible behind it.

The catalog title is "United States Penitentiary - Leavenworth, Kansas: Bullet-proof Guard Tower." 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 round tower with a roofed lookout on a bare rise; timber scaffolding of wall construction stands behind it.

The mount carries a typed caption in English and Spanish; the English line reads "Bullet-proof Guard Tower." 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-20; 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/99904447
- National Archives series: Album of Views of the Penitentiaries at Atlanta and Fort Leavenworth (NAID 518093): https://catalog.archives.gov/id/518093