[Coast Guard patrol craft and Alcatraz prison boat circling Alcatraz Island during a 3 day prisoner revolt in May, 1946]

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Local identifier: AAC-9472
Title: [Coast Guard patrol craft and Alcatraz prison boat circling Alcatraz Island during a 3 day prisoner revolt in May, 1946]
Date: 1946 May 3
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 Breaks-May, 1946.
Newscopy: "CIRCLING ON GUARD--A Coast Guard patrol craft (front) and the Alcatraz prison boat, Warden Johnston, circle the island, on guard against escape attempts by revolting convicts. The fighting is centered in the main cell block (top) and on the opposite side of the island."
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Alcatraz Island (Calif.)
United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California
Subject Name: United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California
Keywords: Prison escapes
Bibliographic Number: .b10243239
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:139320