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Collection Summary
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 2357-00001
Title: Cell block interior, State Penitentiary, Bismarck (N.D.)
Date: 1920-1935
Inscription/Marks: [handwritten in blue ink on back of print] Penitentiary. Cell Block. Interior. [Black ink stamp] State Historical Society of North Dakota.
Summary: Two men stand in the hall in front of a cell block at the North Dakota State Penitentiary in Bismarck. The closer man wears a suit, and the other wears a uniform. There appear to be four levels of cells. The man close to the camera is partially ghosted because he moved during the exposure. Land was appropriated for a territorial penitentiary to be located in Bismarck in 1881. The penitentiary opened for its first prisoners near Bismarck in 1885.
Red ID: PH_I_92933 Image ID: 46497 Image Notes: A2357-00001

Collection: A Digitized Images from Collection
Title: A Collection
Date: XX/XXXX

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