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Cellblock at Besieged Prison: A newsman takes notes on the view of the interior of Attica State Prison cellblock where rebellious prisoners held 38 hostages for five days. A representative of the prison said some of the bodies of the hostages were found here, September 14, 1971
Cellblock at Besieged Prison: A newsman takes notes on the view of the interior of Attica State Prison cellblock where rebellious prisoners held 38 hostages for five days. A representative of the prison said some of the bodies of the hostages were found here, September 14, 1971
Cellblock at Besieged Prison: A newsman takes notes on the view of the interior of Attica State Prison cellblock where rebellious prisoners held 38 hostages for five days. A representative of the prison said some of the bodies of the hostages were found here, September 14, 1971

Cellblock at Besieged Prison: A newsman takes notes on the view of the interior of Attica State Prison cellblock where rebellious prisoners held 38 hostages for five days. A representative of the prison said some of the bodies of the hostages were found here, September 14, 1971

Maker
Date9/14/1971
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
Dimensions7-1/8 x 8-5/8 inches
Credit LineGift of Jennifer & Marc Lipschultz
Collections
Object number2024.244
Status
Not on view
After Release: Luong Truyen, 16, left, and Nguyen Van Truong, 20, a former militiaman, sit on cot in Duc Pho, Vietnam, yesterday after telling their story of being beaten and starved by their Viet Cong captors. They were among people freed from jungle prison camp about 300 miles north of Saigon by U.S. paratroopers Thursday. The freed men and women told inmates being beaten to death in public executions to frighten other prisoners into submission, July 1967
After Release: Luong Truyen, 16, left, and Nguyen Van Truong, 20, a former militiaman, sit on cot in Duc Pho, Vietnam, yesterday after telling their story of being beaten and starved by their Viet Cong captors. They were among people freed from jungle prison camp about 300 miles north of Saigon by U.S. paratroopers Thursday. The freed men and women told inmates being beaten to death in public executions to frighten other prisoners into submission, July 1967
Unknown Artist
7/1/1967
For Size: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover takes time out today to show photographers how he looks in a baseball cap. Hoover donned the cap after receiving the championship trophy won by the FBI baseball team in the All-American Amateur Association playoffs in Zanesville, Ohio, earlier this month, Washington D.C., September 8, 1960
For Size: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover takes time out today to show photographers how he looks in a baseball cap. Hoover donned the cap after receiving the championship trophy won by the FBI baseball team in the All-American Amateur Association playoffs in Zanesville, Ohio, earlier this month, Washington D.C., September 8, 1960
William J. Smith
9/8/1960
Twelve Illustrations to Goethe's Faust by Peter Cornelius (Bilder zu Goethe's Faust von P. Cornelius): Plate XII, Gretchen in Prison (Gretchen im Gefängnis)
Twelve Illustrations to Goethe's Faust by Peter Cornelius (Bilder zu Goethe's Faust von P. Cornelius): Plate XII, Gretchen in Prison (Gretchen im Gefängnis)
Peter von Cornelius
1816 (plate, this impression 1845)
The Prison
The Prison
Joseph Webb
1930
St. Peter Liberated from Prison
St. Peter Liberated from Prison
Luca Giordano
n.d.
Image Not Available for Liberation of St. Peter from Prison (after painting by William Hilton)
Liberation of St. Peter from Prison (after painting by William Hilton)
E.J. Portbury
n.d.
Image Not Available for Prison Scene (Drunken Party) (after painting by Gilbert Stuart Newton)
Prison Scene (Drunken Party) (after painting by Gilbert Stuart Newton)
William Finden
n.d.
Image Not Available for The Prison Group (after Firmin Bouvy)
The Prison Group (after Firmin Bouvy)
D. Devachez
n.d.
[Th]ey awake to find themselves really in peril from exploding shells hitting their prison at Norma Catherine But again escape enemys plans (recto), at jennie Richee, Escape to river getting on rafts (verso)
[Th]ey awake to find themselves really in peril from exploding shells hitting their prison at Norma Catherine But again escape enemys plans (recto), at jennie Richee, Escape to river getting on rafts (verso)
Henry Darger
n.d. (circa 1950)
Prisons, plate VII (The Drawbridge)
Prisons, plate VII (The Drawbridge)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1751
Shown after their conviction in U.S. District Court here today are the 11 Communist leaders charged with conspiracy to teach and advocate the forcible overthrow of the government. Left to right are: Henry Winston, Eugene Dennis, Jacob Stachel, Gilbert Green, Benjamin Davis, John Williamson, Robert G. Thompson, Gus Hall, Irving Potash, Carl Winter, John Gates. Men at upper right behind the two lines of prisoners are unidentified court attaches, New York City
Shown after their conviction in U.S. District Court here today are the 11 Communist leaders charged with conspiracy to teach and advocate the forcible overthrow of the government. Left to right are: Henry Winston, Eugene Dennis, Jacob Stachel, Gilbert Green, Benjamin Davis, John Williamson, Robert G. Thompson, Gus Hall, Irving Potash, Carl Winter, John Gates. Men at upper right behind the two lines of prisoners are unidentified court attaches, New York City
Unknown Artist
circa 1951
Barbara Pliskow (left), 37, of Detroit is escorted by a sheriff's deputy after her arrest Friday at the Detroit airport as authorities broke up what they said was a plot to commandeer a jetliner to fly two jailed Black Panthers to a foreign country. Miss Pliskow was arrested as she threw a package containing two sticks of dynamite as she and 54 other passengers were being led from a plane for a search, Detroit, Michigan, September 1971
Barbara Pliskow (left), 37, of Detroit is escorted by a sheriff's deputy after her arrest Friday at the Detroit airport as authorities broke up what they said was a plot to commandeer a jetliner to fly two jailed Black Panthers to a foreign country. Miss Pliskow was arrested as she threw a package containing two sticks of dynamite as she and 54 other passengers were being led from a plane for a search, Detroit, Michigan, September 1971
Unknown Artist
9/1/1971