Interior two-story walls of a cell block at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado have remnants of plaster on the exposed stone. The brick gable and bars in the arched windows are intact; the roof is gone. Smoking debris clutters the floor; a man in the foreground looks on.
Description
1 photoprint ; 12 x 17 cm. (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
Subject
Canon City (Colo.)--1920-1930; Fires--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930; Prison riots--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Format-Medium
Photograph
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: ZZR710017889
Notes
Date hand-written on back of photoprint: O 4, 1929; Title supplied by cataloger.; R7100178896
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