Plank gravemarkers and weeds fill the cemetery at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. A metal plate in the foreground reads: "C.S.P. Inmate;" trees and hills are in the background.
Canon City (Colo.)--1900-1930.; Cemeteries--Colorado--Canon City--1900-1930.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Photos of graduates of the Colorado State Penitentiary G.E.D. class in Canon City, Colorado, are arranged on display board and identified as follows (L to R): J. A. Smalley, J. B. Sherbondy, E. R. Cain, R.L.M. Mora, D. A. Valenzuela, E. C....
Canon City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Alumni & alumnae--Colorado--Canon City--1950-1960.; Prisoners--Colorado--Canon City--1950-1960.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Responding to the 1947 break from the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, National Guardsmen surround a 1930's hardtop sedan. They wear helmets, double-breasted top coats, and carry automatic and semi- automatic machine guns. Snow covers...
Canon City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Militias--Colorado--Canon City--1940-1950.; Prison escapes--Colorado--Canon City--1940-1950.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Guards carry a slumping convict (R. L. Freeman, kidnapper) through interior barred gates at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Snow is on their pants, shoes and hats. Men stand in the foreground; one holds a cigar.
Canon City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Prison escapes--Colorado--Canon City--1940-1950.; Freeman, R. L.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Open beams span the interior ceiling of the State Penitentiary dairy in Canon City, Colorado. Shaded, hanging electric lamps are centered over the concrete floor, which is flanked by feeding Guernsey cows, facing out. Open factory windows line some...
Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Dairy farming--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Posing in his brass buttoned, double breasted uniform, this guard at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, has the letters: "C.S.P." on the band of his conductor's hat.
Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Prison guards--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1900.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Pipe fence poles with angled top sections line this dirt road at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Narrow gauge railroad tracks climb the hill, topped with guard towers. A man in the foreground stands by barred gate or piece of...
Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Construction--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Fences--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Warden Best of the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, pets a dog standing on the tailgate of a 1930's woodside truck. A man in a suit holds the leash of another dog, and a man in a sleeveless undershirt and golf hat looks on. A ladder...
Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Dogs--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Best, Roy.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Prison guards at the Colorado State Penitentiary pose for a group portrait in front a rusticated stone building with windows covered by iron bars. The men wear dark uniforms with double breasted coats, vests, ties, boots and caps. Some of the caps...
Colorado State Penitentiary--People--1880-1900.; Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Prison guards--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1900.
Prison guards at the Colorado State Penitentiary pose for a group portrait in front a rusticated stone wall and barred window of a prison building. The men wear dark uniforms with caps. Some of the caps have lettering: "C.S.P.," "Turnkey,"...
Colorado State Penitentiary--People--1880-1900.; Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Prison guards--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1900.
Fields of crops at the State Penitentiary farm in Canon City, Colorado, are flanked by roads; the stone garden house and outbuildings are at the end. Rock walls and a wooden gate form an enclosure in the foreground, with a hay feeder and loading...
Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Farms--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
The Olivers, of Canon City, Colorado, pose sitting on a couch; she wears a dark sateen dress and he wears a denim shirt and bow tie. She is identified as the woman who hit Carl W. Schwartzmiller, a 1947 escapee from the Colorado State Penitentiary,...
Canon City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Spouses--Colorado-- Canon City--1950-1960.
State Penitentiary road crew horses, wagon and driver approach near Canon City, Colorado. Gravel road behind them cuts through steep, rocky terrain; a power pole is at the base of a sheer cliff in the background.
Canon City (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Horses--Colorado--Canon City--1910-1920.
Dirt road built by inmates of the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, cuts through scrub dotted hills. Cattle graze on the slope below, where barbed wire fence follows another dirt road. Railroad tracks, power poles and lines are in the...
Canon City (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Roads--Colorado--Canon City--1910-1920.
F. E. Crawford, warden at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, hat in hands, is flanked by men dressed in suits, jodhpurs, leather gaiters, kneepants and a bow tie. One holds goggles, another a rifle. A uniformed man with a leather...
Prison wardens--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Canon City (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Prison riots--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Plank gravemarkers and weeds fill the cemetery at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Flowers on two graves and a metal star in a circle reading: "U.S. Veteran" are in the foreground.
Canon City (Colo.)--1900-1930.; Cemeteries--Colorado--Canon City--1900-1930.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Plank gravemarkers and weeds fill the cemetery at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. One marker is a metal star in a circle; trees and hills are in the background.
Canon City (Colo.)--1900-1930.; Cemeteries--Colorado--Canon City--1900-1930.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Convicts walk in formation (some with arms crossed) as Warden Roy Best and his two dogs, Bo and Bess, look on. A guard stands by another group of prisoners; a stone building with factory windows are in the background.
Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1960.; Prison laborers--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1960.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Suited men, accompanied by a uniformed guard or soldier aim their pistols at arm's length. They are in a field at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. A tractor is on the road in the background.
Bombing and gunnery ranges--Colorado--Canon City--1950- 1960.; Canon City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Prison guards--Colorado--Canon City--1950-1960.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Shirtless convicts at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, wear boxing gloves and fight. Guards and a crowd of inmates look on. Behind the spectators are a scoreboard and stone prison walls topped by wires, electric lights, and a guard...
Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Boxing--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Prisoners--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Convicts at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, sit at a table in wooden chairs with numbers hand-written on the backs. They watch an instructor use a pointer on a chalkboard with labelled, anatomical details of the bovine reproductive...
Canon City (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Classrooms--Colorado--Canon City--1960-1970.; Interiors.; Prisoners--Colorado--Canon City--1960-1970.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
The Olivers, of Canon City, Colorado, pose sitting on a couch; she wears a dark sateen dress and he wears a denim shirt and bow tie. She is identified as the woman who hit Carl W. Schwartzmiller, a 1947 escapee from the Colorado State Penitentiary,...
Canon City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Spouses--Colorado-- Canon City--1950-1960.
Interior view of the workshop where Colorado license plates are manufactured at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City (Fremont County), Colorado. Men sit and stand near two large machines identified as a rimmer press and an embosser press....
Colorado State Penitentiary--1930-1940.; Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; License plates--Colorado--1930-1940.; Machine shops--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Prisoner laborers--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.
1934 June 29
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