# United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: View of Cells (Department of Justice album)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99956061-leavenworth-view-of-cells/

A mounted photograph from the Department of Justice album showing cells at Leavenworth, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925: open cell doors with numbered cells and folded bedding.

The catalog title is "United States Penitentiary - Leavenworth, Kansas: View of Cells." 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 row of cells with their barred doors open and bedding stacked inside; cell numbers 117, 119 and 121 are visible above the doors.

The mount carries a typed caption in English and Spanish; the English line reads "View of Cells." 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-33; 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/99956061
- National Archives series: Album of Views of the Penitentiaries at Atlanta and Fort Leavenworth (NAID 518093): https://catalog.archives.gov/id/518093