Alcatraz Island, San Francisco

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Photographs

Alcatraz Island, San Francisco

Carleton E. Watkins

Date
1863, printed ca. 1876
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Object type
Photograph
Classification
Photographs
Object number
1986.1189.10
Credit line
Gift of Carole and Irwin Lainoff, Ruth P. Lasser and Joseph R. Lasser, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Marvin, Martin E. and Joan Messinger, Richard L. Yett and Sheri and Paul Siegel, 1986

Artist information

American, 1829–1916

Subjects and terms

  • Ships
  • Prisons

The Met object ID 264897. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.