[Interior of Alcatraz Island cell displaying prisoner artwork]

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Local identifier: AAC-9347
Title: [Interior of Alcatraz Island cell displaying prisoner artwork]
Date: 1956 Mar. 17
Issuance: monographic
Associated Group: San Francisco News-Call Bulletin
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. Photo by Bill Nichols.
Note: Folder: S.F. Islands-Alcatraz-Prison-Art.
Newscopy: "A typical cell at Alcatraz. the art work was done by prisoner. Inmates were allowed radio outlets in cell.".
Newscopy: "COMFORTS--BUT NOT HOME--A typical cell at Alcatraz Federal Prison shown newsmen who this week were allowed to examine the prison's "new look." Art work was done by prisoner. Inmates are allowed radio outlets in cells and may have all the books they can read from the prison's 10,000-volume library.".
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Alcatraz Island (Calif.)
Prisoners as artists--California--Alcatraz Island
United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California
Subject Name: United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California
Bibliographic Number: .b10241991
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:139196