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.
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.
Format-Medium
Photograph
Source
W. K. Patterson Mss. Collection
Rights Contact Information
Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, at photosales@denverlibrary.org.
Reproduction Available for Purchase
Yes (digital reproduction)
Related Material
Image File: ZZR710017867
Notes
Hand-written on back of photoprint: no slide prison.; Title hand-written original and reproduced in photoprint.; R7100178676
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