United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: Prisoners Building an Enclosing Wall of the Penitentiary (Department of Justice album)
Plate 39 of the Department of Justice album of the Atlanta and Leavenworth penitentiaries, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925, captioned "Prisoners building an enclosing wall of the penitentiary." The photograph is a high view over a construction site: a long wall under scaffolding, cell blocks with arched openings at the left, piles of sand and stone, and small figures of men working with carts and a horse.
- Date
- 1900/1925
- Kind
- photograph
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- NAID
- 99956073
- Rights
- A federal record created by the Department of Justice (Record Group 60), series "Album of Views of United States Penitentiaries at Atlanta, Georgia and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas" (NAID 518093). A United States government work, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The item and the series read "Use Restriction: Unrestricted." The copy stored here is an 1,800-pixel downsample of the catalog's digital object of about 36 MB.
The catalog title is “United States Penitentiary - Leavenworth, Kansas: Prisoners Building an Enclosing Wall of the Penitentiary,” local identifier 60-AL-39. It is plate 39 of the Department of Justice album of views of the penitentiaries at Atlanta and Leavenworth, two of the first three United States penitentiaries. The page is headed “UNITED STATES PENITENTIARY–LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS.” and the caption reads, in English and Spanish, “Prisoners building an enclosing wall of the penitentiary.” / “Prisioneros construiendo muros de la prision.”
The photograph is a high view over a construction site: a long wall under scaffolding, cell blocks with arched openings at the left, piles of sand and stone, and small figures of men working with carts and a horse.
The catalog dates the series “ca. 1900 - ca. 1925,” and the item carries no date of its own, so no year is claimed. The series description says the album documents phases of construction and includes “a few photos of the prisoners.” No prisoner or officer is named.