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Handbook for Officers
Description: This booklet is a reproduction of the Manual of Rules,
Regulations and Required Duties for Corrections Officers
given to all new Eastern State Penitentiary (then known as
S.C.I. Philadelphia) corrections officers in 1961.
Dimensions (in inches): 9.00 x 6.00, 45 pages, soft cover.
$4.75
($3.95 each plus 80¢ S & H)
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Handbook for Inmates
Description: This booklet is a reproduction of the Handbook for Inmates given to all new Eastern State Penitentiary inmates in the 1960’s. Discusses regulations and rights governing inmate life during the last decade of the institution. The original Handbooks were printed in the Penitentiary’s Print Shop.
Dimensions (in inches): 6.45 x 4.25, 20 pages, soft cover.
$4.75 ($3.95 plus .80 S & H)
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Eastern State Penitentiary: Crucible of Good Intentions
By: Norman Johnston, Kenneth Finkel (Contributor) Jeffery A. Cohen
Description: This book is the definitive work on the Penitentiary. First published in 1994, as part of an exhibit of the same name at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Dr. Johnston traces Eastern State’s 172 year history beginning the reform movement that spawned the Penitentiary’s construction and ending with the legacy of this internationally significant building. The book contains nearly 100 color and black and white images and diagrams.
Printed with funding from the Pennsylvania History and Museum Grant Program.
ISBN: 0812279654; Dimensions (in inches): 0.62 x 11.32 x 9.11, 116 pages. © 1994.
$27.95 ($24.95 plus $3.00 S & H)
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Eastern State Penitentiary (Images of America)
By: Francis X. Dolan
Description: Francis X. Dolan
This book features over 200 rare photographs and images from the Penitentiary’s last 231 years of history. Many of the photographs in this book have recently been donated to the historic site by former officers and inmates and have never before been seen by the public.
This comprehensive book will provoke, enlighten and engross both ESP buffs and novices alike.
ISBN-13: 978-0738550398; Dimensions (in inches): 0.25 x 9.25 x 6.50, 128 pages. © August 13, 2007.
$22.99 ($19.99 plus $3.00 S & H)
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Hope Abandoned: Eastern State Penitentiary
Description: By: Mark Perrott (Photographer), Herbert Muschamp (Introduction), Hal Kirn
This hard cover book, published by the historic site
in February 2000, contains 67 black and white photographs.
The photographs were taken inside the walls of Eastern State
Penitentiary between 1992 and 1996 by Pittsburgh
photographer Mark Perrott.
To capture these images, Mr. Perrott extensively explored the
twelve-acre complex of cellblocks, administrative and industrial
spaces. Hope Abandoned includes photographs of the penitentiary
synagogue, dining halls, inmate chapel and hospital operating room.
Within these grand architectural spaces, Mr. Perrott focused on
personal objects left behind, such as horsehair shaving brush, a
worn and bursting baseball, a stool, a desk, and a prisoner’s
tin drinking cup. Hope Abandoned combines these images with carefully
chosen excerpts from interviews with former inmates, guards, and
neighbors, evoking sympathy, fear and humor.
ISBN: 0-9670455-0-9; Dimensions (in inches): 9.25 x 9.80, 105 pages, hard cover © 2000.
$31.00
($28.00 each plus $3.00 S & H)
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Outta Here: Escapes from Eastern State Penitentiary
By: Norman Johnston
Description: Prisons have always been designed to keep the inmates in, and most everybody else out. The Eastern State Penitentiary was no exception. It was built for serious offenders, and the architect himself believed that the building was "escape proof". But it was not. More than 100 men managed to scale, tunnel under or sneak through Eastern State’s thirty-foot wall. And many others tried. . .
E.S.P. expert Dr. Norman Johnston provides a fascinating and often humorous look at many of the famous and not so famous escapes that occurred during Eastern State’s 142 years in operation. The book contains over one dozen black and white archival photographs and diagrams.
Dimensions (in inches): 9.75 x 8.50, 26 pages, soft cover © 2005.
$7.95 ($6.95 plus $1.00 S & H)
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CHOW: Food and Drink In Eastern State Penitentiary
By: Norman Johnston
Description: In his latest book, CHOW: Food and Drink In Eastern State Penitentiary, Dr. Norman Johnston provides an in depth and often humorous look at the history of feeding during Eastern State’s 142 years in operation.
Included are sample menus, descriptions "The Chocolate Diet" and other meals for the sick, popular contraband food and drink items, food costs and even a recipe for "prison wine." Dr. Johnston also compares the typical Eastern State inmate diet to that of working class Americans as well as to that of inmates in other American prisons.
The book contains over one dozen black and white archival photographs.
Dimensions (in inches): 9.75 x 8.50, 30 pages, soft cover © 2006.
$7.95 ($6.95 plus $1.00 S & H)
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Outta Here / Chow Package
Order both and save! This set includes two popular booklets by Norman Johnston - Outta Here: Escapes from Eastern State Penitentiary and CHOW: Food and Drink In Eastern State Penitentiary. These booklets provide a fascinating and often humorous look at two popular topics: escapes and prison food. See full descriptions above.
$11.00 ($10.00 plus $1.00 S & H)
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Behind the Walls: A Guide to Eastern State Penitentiary
Description: This booklet is the official visitors guide to Eastern State
Penitentiary and acquaints readers with the prison’s many
stories and offers a glimpse into its haunting world of crumbling
cell blocks and empty guard towers. Included are 27 black and
white photographs from the Penitentiary’s archives, as
well as a map of the 11 acre complex.
Dimensions (in inches): 9.45 x 6.50, 18 pages, soft cover.
$2.80
($2.00 each plus 80¢ S & H)
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Pandemonium Audio CD: Janet Cardiff + George Bures Miller
Description: This catalog for Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller's critically
acclaimed audio installation Pandemonium includes an audio CD
of the piece, as well as nearly three dozen color and black and white
images of the installation. Using the existing elements in the prison
cells, Cardiff and Miller have produced a percussive site work that
is rhythmic and musical at some points and at other times pure sound
as if a multitude of people or ghosts have inhabited the hall.
ISBN: 0-9649221-2-6; Dimensions (in inches): 0.25 x 8.75 x 5.75, 48
pages, hard cover © 2005.
$12.95
($9.95 each plus $3.00 S & H)
May Special: $10.00
($7.00 each plus $3.00 S & H)
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Forms of Constraint: A History of Prison Architecture
By: Norman Johnston
Description: From musty medieval dungeons to modern electronically controlled concrete cellblocks, prison architecture reveals much about how a society sees fit to control and contain those who transgress its boundaries. Forms of Constraint is the first general volume to consider how prison design has evolved over the centuries, how it has taken shape in various corners of the globe, and how it reflects the society that oversees it.
Dimensions (in inches): 11.25 x 8.65, 197 pages, soft cover.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (August, 2000)
$23.00 ($20.00 plus 3.00 S & H)
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Breaching the Walls
By: Joseph J. Corvi and Steve Conway
Description: Joe Corvi provides an insider’s view of certain events that took place in
the eastern Pennsylvania penal system during the 1940’s and 1950’s.
He shares a familiarity with the prisons, the inmates, the administration and
those events that can only be gained through personal knowledge, firsthand
experience and a close acquaintance with men who are the actors in his drama.
In short, he can tell the story convincingly because he was there, an inmate
himself.
Although the cast of the characters is large, Breaching tells the story of
three men who served years together in three eastern Pennsylvania prisons,
including Eastern State Penitentiary. One of the men made the best of a bad
situation, served his time and was finally released. The other two made the
worst of it, thinking only of freedom. In the end, one escaped from the law
and the other used the law to escape.
At most every turn of a page a prison break is being conceived, or executed.
Men escape and are captured. Holdups, armed robberies. and shootings
punctuate the chapters. Good guys, bad guys, and chase scenes abound. In
the interludes between the action scenes, the inmates experience everything
from terrifying confrontations to simple fraternal kindnesses. Finally, there
are the long hours spent contemplating the mind-numbing prospect of being
incarcerated for interminable decades-and endless purgatory.
Dimensions (in inches): 5 1/4 by 8 inches, 190 pages, soft cover.
Publisher: Personal Legends Publishing (December, 2002) ISBN: 0-9725468-0-4
$19.95
($16.95 each plus $3.00 S & H)
May Special: $17.95
($14.95 each plus $3.00 S & H)
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Prison Manifesto: recollections of a Queer Psychologist Working in a Maximum Security Prison
By: Bernard Mazie
Description: Prison Maifesto is a memoir. It is a survivor’s story of a just-out
gay man encountering a totally macho environment on his own terms.
Relating to initially hostile inmates and correctional officers presented
unique problems with equally unique solutions. The outcome is favorable
and the telling is unforgettable.
Bernard Mazie worked at Eastern State Penitentiary as "Psychological
Services Associate" from the fall of 1966 to 1969.
ISBN: 0-9769715-0-X; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x 9.00 x 6.00, 311 pages, soft cover © 2005.
$19.95
($16.95 each plus $3.00 S & H)
May Special: $17.95
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Ghostly Tales from America’s Jails
By: Joan Upton Hall (Editor)
Description: Are you intrigued by true ghost stories?
Author Joan Upton Hall has put together a collection of spooky
tales that will be thoroughly enjoyed by fans of the
paranormal, especially by those readers with a particular
interest in old jails and prisons.
The stories, forty in all, take place in different times and
locations across the United States, bringing in the flavor of
each individual setting – from an old Salem Witch Jail from the
1600’s to a Charleston Civil War prison for pirates to
Philadelphia’s own Eastern State Penitenitiary. These haunting
stories written by a group of versatile authors from various
backgrounds, appeal to the reader’s imagination and capture
the dark mood of these jails, bringing to life the misery and
violence that once took place there. The fact that many of the
jails and prisons are now restaurants, inns, offices, shops
and museums is interesting.
The chapters are arranged in chronological order from the
oldest to the newest haunting, and each story is accompanied
by an author photo and bio. Authors include ghost hunters,
psychics, and correctional officers.
Dimensions (in inches): 8.4” x 5.5” x 0.6”, 240 pages, soft cover.
Publisher: Atriad Press; ISBN: 1933177098; (November 2006)
ON SALE NOW: Save $1.00
$16.95 ($13.95 plus 3.00 S & H)
Regular Price:
$21.95 (18.95 plus 3.00 S&H)
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Philadelphia Ghost Stories
By: Charles J. Adams III
Description: Charles J. Adams III, who has written over 20 books on ghost stories, has compiled the first comprehensive collection of Philadelphia ghost stories ever printed. Now in its third printing, this is the ultimate resource of chilling, true stories of haunted places in the most historic city in America. Included are true ghost stories about Eastern State Penitentiary, City Hall, Old Fort Mifflin, the Betsy Ross House, the Moshulu, Washington Square, Pennsylvania Hospital, and many other prominent Philadelphia landmarks. This book is a must have for any ghost enthusiast.
Dimensions (in inches): 0.49 x 8.50 x 5.46, 190 pages, soft cover.
Publisher: Exeter House Books; ISBN: 1880683121; (May 1998)
$14.95 ($11.95 plus 3.00 S & H)
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Ghost Stories of Pennsylvania
By: Dan Asfar
Description: The rich history of Pennsylvania is filled with the unexplained: frightening specters, mysterious apparitions and haunted buildings. Join Dan Asfar as he recounts the Keystone State’s most intriguing ghost stories. Included are over 20 true stories about some of Pennsylvania’s most well know haunted landmarks, including the Eastern State Penitentiary, Fort Mifflin, the Powel House, the Baleroy Mansion and the George School’s Tate House. This is the most up to date book about ghost’s in Pennsylvania and a must have for any ghost enthusiast.
Dimensions (in inches): 0.50 x 8.25 x 5.25, 232 pages, soft cover.
Publisher: Ghost House Publishing; ISBN: 189487708X; (October 2002)
ON SALE NOW: Save $1.00
$12.95 ($9.95 plus 3.00 S & H)
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Haunted Pennsylvania
Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Keystone State
By: Mark Nesbitt and Patty A. Wilson
Description: A collection of frightening stories, including the Civil War ghosts of Gettysburg, spirits at John Brown’s tannery, the fiddling ghost of Potter County, hauntings at the Eastern State Penitentiary, the mysterious indelible handprint, and many more.
Dimensions (in inches): 5.5 x 8.25, 128 pages, soft cover.
Publisher: Stackpole Books; ISBN: 0-8117-3298-3; (August 2006)
$12.95 ($9.95 plus 3.00 S & H)
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Pennsylvania's Ghost Towns: Uncovering the Hidden Past
By: Susan Hutchison Tassin
Description: Cemeteries, abandoned buildings, and
roads to nowhere are all that remain of several
once-thriving towns in Pennsylvania. This guidebook
profiles 46 locations that have been abandoned or left to
ruin, and some that have seen new life as historic sites,
with discussions on their history, daily life, fall, and
current condition.
Does Eastern State Penitentiary qualify as a ghost town?
During its 142 years in operation, Eastern State housed
over 80,000 men and women. Author Susan Hutchinson argues
that it is possible a number of these souls remain even
today.
Dimensions (in inches): 8.1 x 5.5, 128 pages, soft cover.
Publisher: Stackpole Books; ISBN-13: 978-0811734110; (August 2007)
$13.95 ($10.95 plus 3.00 S & H)
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