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Finding Aids - Alcatraz

Finding aids contain information on the contents and significance of an archival collection. The finding aid may include descriptive information; repository information; collection history; biographical or historical information on creators of the collection; and in some cases a container or folder list of everything in the collection. The collection is housed at the Park Archives and Records Center and can be viewed during open hours or by appointment. Please visit the Collections page for more information or email us.
 

Alcatraz Blueprint Collection GOGA 18298 (pdf 1.5MB)
The collection consists of 445 drawings related to structures and activities on Alcatraz Island. The majority of the items are architectural drawings of structures constructed or modified during the Federal Penitentiary years.

Marc S. Boatwright Alcatraz Indian Occupation Collection GOGA 35158 (pdf 250K)
One box of photographs, flyers, correspondence, manuscripts, and legal documents from the Alcatraz Indian Occupation, 1969-1970. Included are the Articles of Incorporation for Indians of All Tribes, Inc., Indians of All Tribes newsletters, and poems written by Indians while on the island.

Erwin Thompson Research Collection GOGA 35360 (pdf 882K)
This is the combined collection of research materials created and amassed by NPS historian Erwin N. "T" Thompson, used for multiple historic resource studies (HRS) on GGNRA properties from the 1970s through the 1990s. The bulk of the collection is Thompson's handwritten and indexed notes, arranged by the specific topics of each study. The largest series, for his Presidio of San Francisco (PSF) HRS, includes copies of primary sources, maps, and post returns. His studies of Alcatraz and PSF are among the most thorough historic studies of those sites.

Did You Know?

Basalt pillows

Geologists sometimes call Franciscan pillow basalt “greenstone” because it contains green minerals formed in an interaction between the basalt and hot, mineral-rich seawater.