Sujet

Prison in Irkutsk, eastern Siberia, 1885. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Prison in Irkutsk, eastern Siberia, 1885. The new prison in Irkutsk; next to it is the old prison. The new city prison was built in 1861 to accommodate 450 prisoners but sometimes held as many as 1,500. At the time of Kennan's visit, 743 prisoners were incarcerated.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A03_198

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

46,7Mo (1,8Mo) / 42,0cm x 27,8cm / 4960 x 3288 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building buildings people male library man men architecture country law guy crime color siberian prison location century Russia Russian B&W Siberia Library of Congress penitentiary Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black 1880s nineteenth century Irkutsk Rossiya TGN outside photograph Unknown George Congressional Library Heritage Art 19th-century still image Meeting of Frontiers George Kennan Kennan