# United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: Interior of North-east Cell Building (Department of Justice album)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99956059-leavenworth-northeast-cell-building/

A mounted photograph from the Department of Justice album showing the interior of the northeast cell building at Leavenworth, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925: tiers of cells along a long hall.

The catalog title is "United States Penitentiary - Leavenworth, Kansas: Interior of North-east Cell Building." 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 long interior hall with tiers of cells and galleries on one side.

The mount carries a typed caption in English and Spanish; the English line reads "Interior of North-east Cell Building." 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-32; 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/99956059
- National Archives series: Album of Views of the Penitentiaries at Atlanta and Fort Leavenworth (NAID 518093): https://catalog.archives.gov/id/518093