Subject
Public Gaol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Postcards - Virginia - Williamsburg
Block 27. Building 02.
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Description
Recto and verso of a postcard featuring an interior view of a prisoner's cell within the Public Gaol. The Albertype Co. of Brooklyn, NY produced some of the earliest official postcards for Colonial Williamsburg. This one promoted the newly restored Public Gaol after it opened as an exhibition building in 1936.
The caption reads: "Built about 1710. About ten years later an addition was made, called the General Court Prison for Debtors, containing such cells as these."