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LL/80913
A.J. Riddle
Bird's-eye view, Anderson Prison, Georgia
1864
Albumen print
3 3/16 × 4 13/16 ins (8.1 × 12.22 cm) (image and sheet)
 
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Object number: 2005.27.202
 
LL/80913 [Further details available]

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LL/64399
Unidentified photographer
Siberian convicts taking lunch by the roadside (common criminals)
1885-1886
Albumen print, on mount
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-71120 (b&w film copy neg.), Call Number: LOT 13251-2, no. 6 [P&P]
 
LL/64399

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LL/38631
Unidentified photographer
Two prisoners, Ohio Penitentiary
n.d.
Carte de visite
 
Burns Americana
 
LL/38631 [Further details available]

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LL/107755
Christopher G. Gibbard
Prison Yard View. [Auburn, New York]
[Views at Auburn, N.Y.]
1870s
Stereoview
 
J. Paul Getty Museum
Gift of Weston J. and Mary M. Naef, Object Number: 84.XC.979.3764
 
LL/107755

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LL/107756
Christopher G. Gibbard
Prison Wall View. [Auburn, New York]
[Views at Auburn, N.Y.]
1870s
Stereoview
 
J. Paul Getty Museum
Gift of Weston J. and Mary M. Naef, Object Number: 84.XC.979.3766
 
LL/107756

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LL/107757
Christopher G. Gibbard
Prison Buildings. [Auburn, New York]
[Views at Auburn, N.Y.]
1870s
Stereoview
 
J. Paul Getty Museum
Gift of Weston J. and Mary M. Naef, Object Number: 84.XC.979.3767
 
LL/107757

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LL/107759
Christopher G. Gibbard
Garden at State Prison. [Auburn, New York]
[Views at Auburn, N.Y.]
1870s
Stereoview
 
Private collection of Dan Weinstock
 
LL/107759

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LL/107751
Christopher G. Gibbard
Prison Yards and Shops. [Auburn, New York]
[Views at Auburn, N.Y.]
1870s
Stereoview
 
J. Paul Getty Museum
Gift of Weston J. and Mary M. Naef, Object Number: 84.XC.979.3761
 
LL/107751

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LL/107752
Christopher G. Gibbard
Prison Shops. [Auburn, New York]
[Views at Auburn, N.Y.]
1870s
Stereoview
 
J. Paul Getty Museum
Gift of Weston J. and Mary M. Naef, Object Number: 84.XC.979.3762
 
LL/107752

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LL/108902
Griffith & Griffith
Convicts carrying stone at Rockfort, Jamaica
1860-1910
Stereoview
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s30158 (digital file from original)
 
LL/108902

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LL/108903
Griffith & Griffith
Convicts carrying stone at Rockfort, Jamaica
1860-1910
Stereoview, half, detail
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s30158 (digital file from original)
 
LL/108903

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LL/108505
George S. Cook
Libby Prison
[Views of Richmond & Vicinity, & Mountain Scenery of Virginia & West Va.]
1865-1880
Stereoview
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s07945 (digital file from original, front) LC-DIG-stereo-2s07945 (digital file from original, back)
 
LL/108505

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LL/108729
Engle & Furlong
[Stockade at Andersonville Prison, Andersonville, Georgia]
[Stereoscopic Views of Andersonville, GA.]
1868
Stereoview
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s04384 (digital file from original item, front) LC-DIG-stereo-2s04384 (digital file from original item, back)
 
LL/108729

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LL/108732
Engle & Furlong
Graves of the six men hung at Andersonville, Ga., July 11th, 1864
1864-1870
Stereoview
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s04600 (digital file from original item, front) LC-DIG-stereo-2s04600 (digital file from original item, back)
 
LL/108732

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LL/108733
Engle & Furlong
National cemetery, Andersonville, Ga.
1864-1870
Stereoview
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s04601 (digital file from original item, front) LC-DIG-stereo-2s04601 (digital file from original item, back)
 
LL/108733

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LL/108731
Engle & Furlong
Gateway to stockade
1861-1865
Stereoview
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s04599 (digital file from original item, front) LC-DIG-stereo-2s04599 (digital file from original item, back)
 
LL/108731

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LL/112569
Innokenty Pavlovsky
Prisoners are chained to wheelbarrows, Sakhalin island
1891
Photographs
 
Private collection of Sergey Maximishin
 
LL/112569

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LL/105125
William Notman
St. Alban's raiders at the jail door, Montreal, QC
1864
Silver salts - Wet collodion process
10 x 17 cm
 
McCord Stewart Museum
Purchase from Associated Screen News Ltd., I-14018
 
LL/105125

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LL/119385
Harry Gedford Lemere
Newgate Prison, interior, London
[National Photographic Record and Survey]
1900
Platinum print
 
Victoria and Albert Museum
Accession number: E.3402-2000
 
LL/119385

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LL/119390
Harry Gedford Lemere
Central Criminal Court, Newgate Prison, interior, London
[National Photographic Record and Survey]
1900
Platinum print
 
Victoria and Albert Museum
Accession number: E.3420-2000
 
LL/119390

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LL/105624
Wm. Notman & Son
Spirit Lake internment camp, Abitibi district, QC
1916 (?)
Silver salts on glass - Gelatin dry plate process
20 x 25 cm
 
McCord Stewart Museum
Purchase from Associated Screen News Ltd., VIEW-5792
 
LL/105624

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LL/120094
Unidentified photographer
David Marshall "Carbine" Williams (left) and friend at Cary Prison Far
1922
Black and white photograph
 
North Carolina Museum of History - NCMOH
 
LL/120094 [Further details available]

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LL/112921
Unidentified photographer
Folsom Prison Photo: Prisoner's Line
1895 (ca)
Albumen print
11 7/8 x 13 1/2 in.
 
Crocker Art Museum
Gift of Richard B. Hansen, 1975.59.
 
LL/112921

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LL/14193
Walker Evans
Two Members of a Prison Work Gang, possibly Louisiana
1935 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
5 1/2 x 6 5/8 in
 
Lee Gallery
Courtesy of Lee Gallery (W1029)
 
LL/14193

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LL/60963
Danny Lyon
Billy McCune, Wynn Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60963

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LL/70633
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Cell in a Model Prison, New Jersey
1975
Gelatin silver print
24 x 16 cm (25,2 x 20,4 cm)
 
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction 108, Photography, 30 November 2016, Lot: 4131
 
LL/70633 [Further details available]

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LL/120072
Gnangarra (Wikimedia username)
Fremantle Prison
2015, 7 February
Black and white photograph
 
Creative Commons - Wikipedia
Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia
 
LL/120072

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LL/120088
Jack E. Boucher
Philadelphia County Prison (Moyamensing Prison) Philadelphia PA. North Cell Block.
1965, July
Black and white photograph
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LOC Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) PA-1097, Control Number: pa1056
 
LL/120088

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LL/120093
Unidentified photographer
"Colored Cell Block", NC State Prison, Raleigh, NC.
n.d.
Black and white photograph
 
North Carolina Museum of History - NCMOH
NCMOH 19XX.324.74
 
LL/120093

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LL/60889
Danny Lyon
Main Entrance to Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60889

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LL/120068
Eric T. Kunsman
Cellblock #14
[Thou Art ..., Will Give]
2002-2015
Photograph
 
Provided by the artist - Eric T. Kunsman
www.erickunsman.com/thou-art-will-give
 
LL/120068 [Further details available]

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LL/120070
Eric T. Kunsman
Infirmary
[Thou Art ..., Will Give]
2002-2015
Photograph
 
Provided by the artist - Eric T. Kunsman
www.erickunsman.com/thou-art-will-give
 
LL/120070 [Further details available]

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LL/43624
David Dare Parker
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, the former Phnom Penh high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979
[Security Prison 21 (s-21), Cambodia]
2009, November
Black and white image
 
Provided by the artist - David Pare Parker
© David Dare Parker
 
LL/43624 [Further details available]

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LL/83383
Jürgen Schadeberg
Nelson Mandela in his cell on Robben Island (revisited)
1994
Platinum print
36.6 x 55.7 cm
 
Lempertz - Cologne
Auction 1109, Photographie, 1 June 2018, Lot: 161
 
LL/83383

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LL/103845
Unidentified photographer
Strategic Hamlet in the vicinity of Vung Tàu, Vietnam
1961
35mm negatives (x2), panorama
 
Private collection of Wolfgang Wiggers
 
LL/103845 [Further details available]

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LL/120096
Denmark (Raleigh, NC)
"The prisoners making concrete culverts for State Highway Commission" at NC State Prison, Raleigh, NC
1926
Photograph
 
North Carolina Museum of History - NCMOH
NCMOH 19XX.324.135
 
LL/120096

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LL/120097
Denmark (Raleigh, NC)
Laundry room at NC State Prison, Raleigh, NC
1926
Photograph
 
North Carolina Museum of History - NCMOH
NCMOH 19XX.324.12
 
LL/120097

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LL/120098
Unidentified photographer
Dining Room, NC State Prison, Raleigh, NC
n.d.
Photograph
 
North Carolina Museum of History - NCMOH
NCMOH 19XX.324.73
 
LL/120098

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Contents - Themes & Fragments
African Americans - Introduction to photography by, and of, African Americans
American Civil War (1861-1865) - Prisons and prisoners during the American Civil War (1861-1865)
Architecture - Harry Gedford Lemere: National Photographic Record and Survey (ca 1900)
Cambodia - David Dare Parker: Security Prison 21 (S-21)
Cambodia - Introduction to photography in Cambodia
Cambodian Civil War (1967-1975) - David Dare Parker: Security Prison 21 (S-21)
Canada - Introduction to photography in Canada
Crime and punishment - Danny Lyon: Conversations with the Dead (1971)
Crime and punishment - Walker Evans: Prison work gang
Dead - Graveyards, cemeteries, gravestones and memorials
Documentary - Danny Lyon: Conversations with the Dead (1971)
Documentary - Documentary photography
Jamaica - Griffith and Griffith: Jamaica
Lines and shapes - Grids
London - Harry Gedford Lemere: National Photographic Record and Survey (ca 1900)
Memory - Introduction to memory
Memory - Picture in Picture
Mugshots - David Dare Parker: Security Prison 21 (S-21)
Mugshots - Introduction to mugshots and rogues' galleries
New York - Christopher G. Gibbard: Views at Auburn, N.Y. (1870s)
Platinum prints - Platinum prints: Examples
Politicians - Introduction to politicians
Prisons - Danny Lyon: Conversations with the Dead (1971)
Prisons - David Dare Parker: Security Prison 21 (S-21)
Prisons - Introduction to prisons and incarceration
Prisons - Walker Evans: Prison work gang
Racial issues - Introduction to racial issues
Russia - Introduction to photography in Russia
Social outsiders - Danny Lyon: Conversations with the Dead (1971)
South Africa - Introduction to photography in South Africa
Vietnam - Introduction to photography in Vietnam
Vietnam - The photographic legacy of the Vietnam War (1961-1975)
Vietnam War (1961-1975) - The photographic legacy of the Vietnam War (1961-1975)
War - Wars and the lack of photographic evidence

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