Fairfield County Jail
PhotographerPhotographed by
L. H. Corbit
Date1926
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver prints on paper, mounted on linen bound with metal screws in album with cardboard covers
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 7 1/2 x 9 1/2in. (19.1 x 24.1cm)
Sheet (height x width): 7 1/2 x 10 3/8in. (19.1 x 26.4cm)
Other (album height x width x depth): 8 x 11 x 3/4in. (20.3 x 27.9 x 1.9cm)
Sheet (height x width): 7 1/2 x 10 3/8in. (19.1 x 26.4cm)
Other (album height x width x depth): 8 x 11 x 3/4in. (20.3 x 27.9 x 1.9cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
DescriptionViews of exterior and interior of a large brick Romanesque revival prison building with barred windows, a tower, paved driveways, grassy lawns, and an American flag flying from a pole. A back wing of the building has a smokestack and a sign that reads "Bridgeport Stone Co." Workmen, possibly prisoners, haul stone on a truck pulled by a tractor. In an interior, men, including some who appear to be African-American, stand at work benches, working on what appear to be metal castings.
Object number2006.93.30.1-.5
MarkingsPaper label on front cover of album, center, in black ink, "6 Photographs of Fairfield / County Jail, 1106 North Ave., / Bridgeport, Conn. / Taken by Corbit of Bridgeport for / the Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia (Conn. Exhibition) / Summer of 1926."; lower left, in pencil, "Dept. of Corrections"; lower right, in black ink, "$65.00 / 65.00."Paper label inside front cover of album, typed in black ink, "Photographs of Fairfield County Jail, / 1106 North Ave., / Bridgeport, Conn. / taken by Corbit of Bridgeport, Conn. for / The Sesquicentennial Exposition, / Philadelphia, Penn. (Conn. Exhibition) / Summer of 1926."InscribedOn verso of each photograph, lower right, accession number.
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