About This Item

  • TitleTombs interior, 10-day pen
  • Call NumberWILC_0048
  • Cite AsJulius Wilcox photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryThree prisoners and one guard, seen through bars of railing in foreground, in long, narrow room in Tombs Prison on Centre Street in Manhattan, subsequently replaced by other prison buildings on same site; sink against wall in background; wooden benches at right.
  • Date1892
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 6 x 5 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteDate from inscription on WILC 0017, title page of photograph album containing original images. Original cyanotype image has number: 113.b. Title from inscription below image on recto.
  • CreatorWilcox, Julius
  • SubjectPrisons -- New York (State) -- New York ; Prisoners -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionJulius Wilcox photograph collection
  • PlaceManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.