[Alcatraz Island prison guard on duty in main cell block]

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Local identifier: AAC-9352
Title: [Alcatraz Island prison guard on duty in main cell block]
Date: 1956 Mar. 17
Issuance: monographic
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
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-Cell Blocks.
Newscopy: "GUARDS UNARMED IN MAIN CELL HOUSE ON 'THE ROCK'--Three-tiered cell blocks in the main cell house on Alcatraz Island. Guards in this area are not armed, lest prisoners overpower one and take his gun. Catwalks surrounding cells, from which gun-guards watch inmates, have been wire-enclosed since 1946 riot."
Negative #5481
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Alcatraz Island (Calif.)
United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California
Subject Name: United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California
Keywords: Cells (Rooms & spaces)
Bibliographic Number: .b10242041
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:139201