Inmate Portraits

Formal photographs of male inmates from the early 20th century, documenting their cases with front and profile views, featuring a muted color palette.

Photograph of John Carnes. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Floyd Helmar. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of H. Daniels. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of J. H. Lindsey. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Frank Arnold. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of George F. Walck. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Clyde Foley. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of W. E. Kercheval. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Frank Sheegreen. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of John Carnes. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Ed Meeks. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Louis Kohler. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Thomas Burns. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Walter F. Thode. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Henry Gerner. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Arthur Payton. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of James Sasser. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of William Gibson. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of George Flatford. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of John J. Henry. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of William M. Chambers. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Henry Hawk. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Jim McLaughlin. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Odell L. Green. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Fred Long. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Frank McCarty. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of James R. Farmer. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Lind G. Rockwell. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of E. L. Brown. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Alfred R. Lavender. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of John Phelps. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Joe Hammill. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of George Wert. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Caleb Gunter. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Tom Lewis. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Clyde Middlesworth. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Harry L. Owens. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Harry O. Bair. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Robert B. Atwood. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Joseph H. Jones. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Otis Brickley. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Charles C. Cox. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of William H. Gray. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Roy Robinson. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Lew Jones. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Francisco Candara. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Edwin Crittendon. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of William Workman. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Jay Cottrell. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of James Parsley. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of William Murphy. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Elmer McDaniel. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Joseph H. Deekin. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Charles G. Davis. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Harrison L. Seaton. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Harry E. Johnes. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Earl Posey. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Edward F. Culp. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of John Smith. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Melvin Stovall. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of W. G. Pierce. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of J. M. Page. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Asa B. Hoover. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Dowdy Tucker. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Lonnie Sheeves. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Theodore Fred Shufelt. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Milton Young. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Francisco Valdez. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Harry Scanlon. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of David Rooney. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Willis H. Ballou. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Edward J. Tierney. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Henry H. Zinn. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of George D. Burnett. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Harry M. Walker. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of James G. McBride. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Jimmy Duffy (aka Jim Carrigan). Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Dewey Logwood. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of William Moss. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Peter Pommerville. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Leonard R. Miller. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Jim H. Seaton. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Avard A. Long. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Marion Cox. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Charles Foush. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of George Hill. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Harry Berkowitz. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Jim Stewart. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Jack Nelson. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Rudolph Donnerstag. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Bird McNeeley. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of John McAmis. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Harry D. Matson. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Ezra Owen, Inmate Number 4036, at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. Ezra Owen was sentenced to one year and one day for larceny in 1904. Mr. Owen had various prison violations, which included being caught with onions in his possession, laughing and talking, and keeping a hack saw in his cell Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of J. Edward Driscoll. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Alfred Du Plantier. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Harry Ryan. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of William A. Slaton. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Charles Baize. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of Harry C. Wilson. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Photograph of William Gorman. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

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