| Title: | Detention pens |
| Description: | Man in profile standing before metal prison door in courthouse building on Adams Street and Myrtle Avenue (no longer extant) that also served as police station and prison; African American female prisoner looking out behind grates of door. |
| Date: | 1922 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
| More Details: |
Title from inscription on verso. On verso: date inscribed: March '22. |
| Collection: | Government [4]
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| Subject: |
Prisons [5] African American prisoners [6] Public buildings [7] Lost architecture [8] |
| Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
| Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. |
| Rights: | Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library. |
| ID: | GOVT 0008 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/3ae9efd65b6c4922a695eb3310d6d2a6&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+Heights+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Government
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Prisons
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/a/African American prisoners
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Public buildings
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/l/Lost architecture