Rock walls at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, enclose this facility. The backside is an earth embankment with an arch cut into it. Men sit on random drystacked wall, with a ladder below; others work in the enclosure behind them. Adjacent rusticated stone is smoke blackened above an oven door. An ashlar, flat roofed bunker with wooden doors and a false front has a sunken yard fronted by dirt road in the foreground. Shovels, wheelbarrows, and barrels are throughout.
Date
1934
Notes
Hand-written on back of photoprint: no slide prison.; Title hand-written original and reproduced in photoprint.; R7100178676
Description
1 photoprint ; 21 x 28 cm. (8 x 10 in.)
Subject
Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Kilns--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Source
Source: W. K. Patterson Mss. Collection
Rights Statement
Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
