Western penitentiary – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Western penitentiary, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Western penitentiary
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Its title points to one of the state prisons called the Western Penitentiary, most likely the Pennsylvania institution near Pittsburgh that opened in the 1820s under the early penitentiary reforms. The record's title comes from unverified notes on the negative, so the exact site is not confirmed. The picture is a glass negative from the Bain News Service, the New York photo agency founded by George Grantham Bain, which supplied news pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Such images often record the stone walls, cell blocks and yards that defined American prison architecture of the period.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 8,828 × 6,447 px · prints to 29 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-34016 |
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