Atlanta Federal Penitentiary

Here's a postcard of the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, as seen from the air about 1930 or so. The card was mailed in 1935 with the following message. "Dear Clair, detained here but still expect to be on hand Thursday morning, June 6th. Oscar."

Interesting fact: this prison has housed two extremely famous swindlers, Carlo Ponzi, for whom the "Ponzi scheme" was named and, much more recently, Bernard Madoff, the man behind what's been called the world's largest Ponzi scheme. Ponzi himself was sent to the Atlanta prison around 1912, after his conviction for participating in a scheme to smuggle Italian immigrants into the country. Google map