[Aerial view of Alcatraz Island Federal Penitentiary with arrows showing where a group of prisoners tried to escape]

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Local identifier: AAC-9292
Title: [Aerial view of Alcatraz Island Federal Penitentiary with arrows showing where a group of prisoners tried to escape]
Date: [between 1934 and 1936]
Issuance: monographic
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Location: San Francisco Public Library
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: b&w.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Note: Folder: S.F. Islands-Alcatraz-Prison.
Newscopy: "Alcatraz Island and Prison, where five convicts tried to break out today. The arrows point to (1) the main cell building, dining and assembly halls; (2) the gate the convicts pass daily to their work-(?) island; and (3) the rocky shore facing the Golden Gate where the five were attempting to reach the water and swim to liberty - or death."
Newspaper date written on back January 13, 1939.
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Alcatraz Island (Calif.)
United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California
Subject Name: United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California
Bibliographic Number: .b10241449
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:139141