# United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: Interior View of Isolation Cell (Department of Justice album)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99956055-leavenworth-isolation-cell/

A mounted photograph from the Department of Justice album titled as an interior view of an isolation cell at Leavenworth, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925, seen through the bars.

The catalog title is "United States Penitentiary - Leavenworth, Kansas: Interior View of Isolation Cell." 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 is taken through the bars of a cell door into a small cell with a bunk; a figure is visible inside. The figure is not identified.

The mount carries a typed caption in English and Spanish; the English line reads "Interior View of Isolation Cell." 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-30; 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/99956055
- National Archives series: Album of Views of the Penitentiaries at Atlanta and Fort Leavenworth (NAID 518093): https://catalog.archives.gov/id/518093