Sujet

Alexandrofski central prison about sixty versts from Irkutsk, 1886. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Alexandrofski central prison about sixty versts from Irkutsk, 1886. The central prison in the village of Aleksandrovsk was approximately forty miles south of Irkutsk on the Angara River. Originally built as a distillery, the building was remodeled as a prison in 1874. It was considered one of the best and largest prisons in Siberia and held approximately 1,000 convicts.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A03_196

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

47,8Mo (1,6Mo) / 42,0cm x 28,5cm / 4960 x 3367 (300dpi)

Mots clés

weather building buildings season people library country snow law crime color siberian prison location century Russia Russian B&W Siberia Library of Congress penitentiary wintry Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black 1880s nineteenth century TGN winter photograph Unknown Congressional Library Heritage Art 19th-century still image Meeting of Frontiers Irkutsk Oblast Aleksandrovsk