AAC-9292

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

between 1934 and 1936

San Francisco Public Library

Still image

1 photographic print: b&w.

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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.

brn: .b10241449

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