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[Photo of prison: cell block, Atlanta Penitentiary] – Vintage Photo Print

[Photo of prison: cell block, Atlanta Penitentiary], [ca. 1910] — historic photograph
[Photo of prison: cell block, Atlanta Penitentiary], [ca. 1910]. Historic photograph from the Atlanta collection.

(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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[Photo of prison: cell block, Atlanta Penitentiary]

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The cell block pictured here belongs to the Atlanta Penitentiary, a federal prison in Georgia that opened in 1902 as one of the first institutions of its kind run by the national government. Views from its early years document a new system of federal incarceration. The print was made by Bain News Service, a New York photo agency whose pictures of the 1900s and 1910s cover many subjects across the country. The caption data is old and unverified, so the date of about 1910 is an estimate.

Created / published[ca. 1910]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Photo by Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Prisons.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,039 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126729

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