Guard tower from Camp H at Angola Prison

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On View: Segregation Gallery; Museum Maps; Objects in this Location

Exhibition: Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1876-1968

Commissioned by: Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, American, founded 1835

Date: 1900-1950

Medium: steel and concrete
Dimensions: 255 × 108 × 84 in. (647.7 × 274.3 × 213.4 cm)

Description: A steel and concrete tower with external stairway that sits on a raised platform. The tower has a window on each of its four sides. A doorway is on the side closest to the metal stairs. The tower has a corrugated metal roof.

Place collected: West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America

Classification: Buildings and Structures

Type: towers (single built works)

Topic: American South; Labor; Prisons; Rural life

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Donated by Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections and Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola

Object number: 2013.26.1ab

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions; Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.

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Guard tower from Camp H at Angola Prison