Mystery NYS Sing Sing Prison Guards Photo (circa 1930s):
Can you help identify any officer? Location at the prison? The date? The occasion?
Click peopled portions of photo to access close-ups of the officer groupings (left, middle, right).


Click peopled portions of photo to access close-ups of the officer groupings (left, middle, right).

To NYCHS:
I am in possession of a picture of my grandfather in a group of officers in front of prison gates. He was a Sing Sing guard from the late 1930s until the early 1960s.

Perhaps some visitors to your web site can identify the photo for me -- date, place and occasion or circumstances.

My Grandfather is the third from the left, in the second row. His cap is pulled pulled low on his brow. His name was Hobart Atkinson Gilmore. Born Oct. 23, 1891, he died in 1982. The picture has just surfaced.

My grandparents used to live on Clinton Avenue in Ossining. The house number was in the low 70s. I can remember that, when I was a small child visiting my grandparents, we used to drive by the prison.

Please forward to me the responses to this inquiry. I live in California.

Thanks,
G_____ M_____