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Missing key foils escape attempt!

In 1946, six desperate inmates tried to escape U.S. Penitentiary Alcatraz, only to be thwarted by a missing cellhouse key...

Learn all about their ill-fated escape attempt with this unique historical reproduction, based on original artifacts from the Alcatraz cellhouse. Each key comes with an interpretive gift card.

Product specifications:

• Purchase includes keyring, stamped brass tag, and interpretive gift card
• Material: brass
• Key dimensions: 3.875" long x 1.875" wide, overall length: 6"
• Weight: 2.6 oz/0.08 kg
• Manufactured and assembled in the USA

Experience history with a replica Alcatraz Inmate Cup.

This replica Alcatraz Inmate Cup, made from food-grade stainless steel, is based on original artifacts in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area Museum Collection.

Did You Know?

At United States Penitentiary Alcatraz (1934-1963), prisoners used tin cups in their cells and in the dining hall. The reason for the metal vessels was simple: ceramic or china cups could be broken and their shards turned into weapons. Large drinking cups were used for water, coffee, and juice, while shallow cups were used as shaving mugs in the convicts' cells. When morale got low in the cellhouse, inmates sometimes blew off steam by causing minor riots—hollering, cursing, and beating their cups against the metal bars of their cells.

Product Specifications:

• Material: stainless steel (304 grade, 18/8)
• Dimensions: approximately 5" wide x 4" deep x 2.5" tall
• Designed and developed in San Francisco
• Manufactured in China

Experience history with a replica Alcatraz Inmate Tray.

This replica Alcatraz Inmate Tray, made from food-grade stainless steel, is based on historical artifacts in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area Museum Collection.

At United States Penitentiary Alcatraz (1934-1963), prisoners ate off metal trays at meal times in the dining hall. Since ceramics or glassware could easily be broken into shards and turned into weapons, tableware handled by inmates was made from metal. These utilitarian trays, like much of the equipment used in the penitentiary, were government-issued and designed for military use.

Available in two sizes:
Large - 15.375" wide x 11.5" tall
Small - 10.75" wide x 8" tall

Product Specifications:

• Material: stainless steel (304 grade, 18/8)
• Weight: large - 1 lb, 2 oz/0.5 kg, small - 9.2 oz/0.26 kg
• Designed and developed in the USA
• Manufactured in China

Uncover the secrets of the Rock with Alcatraz Escape Files.

Freedom. For men locked up in maximum-security, minimum-privilege US Penitentiary Alcatraz, the idea was an obsession. They spent their time thinking about it, dreaming of it, plotting ways to achieve it. Although the odds against their schemes succeeding were high, that didn't stop them from trying. And when it came to ways to get off the island, these men—who had time on their hands and plenty of motivation—came up with some remarkably daring getaway plans.

During the Rock's 29-year history, the Federal Bureau of Prisons documented fourteen separate escape attempts. These reports provide a rare glimpse into the minds of driven men who, consumed by thoughts of freedom, broke out of solitary confinement, slipped away from the dock, used improvised tools to saw through steel bars, and created decoy dummy heads from soap and human hair.

Well-researched and richly-illustrated, this engrossing book is a journey through the official files of the Bureau of Prisons. It's a captivating look at exactly how far men will go to break free—sometimes at terrible cost.

NOTE: This book contains descriptions of crime and violence. Its content may not be suitable for all readers.

Product specifications:

• Paperback, 154 pages
• Dimensions: 10" tall x 8" wide x 0.5" thick
• Designed and developed in the USA
• Printed in Hong Kong

Bring home the beauty of your favorite national parklands with artwork from our Golden Gate National Parks print collection. 

The Parks Conservancy celebrates Muir Woods with this handsome graphic. Silk-screened edition on premium stark white paper, framed in classic black wood.

Artwork by renowned San Francisco Bay Area designer Michael Schwab.

Product specifications

• Dimensions: 23" wide x 29-1/2" tall, artwork 14-1/2" wide x 21" tall
• Materials: acid-free archival quality paper
• Printed in the USA

Celebrate California's redwood forests with this colorful tote bag.

Shop Local

This product was proudly created in partnership with San Francisco-based Rickshaw Bagworks, made with American-manufactured fabrics and hand-sewn in the city's Dogpatch neighborhood.

Product specifications:

• Illustrations by Charles House
• 16" H x 16" W x 5" D, 22" strap
• Made in San Francisco

Muir Woods, with its giant red-barked trees, soothing filtered light and birdsong, is a haven of calm in a complicated modern world. It is also one of the nation's few intact old-growth coastal redwood forests, and the only sizable redwood stand near San Francisco Bay that, as author John Hart notes, "has literally never felt the hand of the logger."In this book, you will enter the world of Muir Woods National Monument, a rich and complex environment saved by people who saw its value and worked to preserve it, and protected today by the National Park Service. A place of "green and lively light, shady yet somehow never dim, that the dusty eye takes in as a thirsty throat takes in water". Muir Woods offers timeless testimony to both the power of nature and the human need for the peace it offers.158 vibrantly colored pages. Written by John Hart with an Introduction by Edgar Wayburn

Our Muir Woods fleece jacket is made of 100% recycled polyester, and the bold color is sure to turn heads wherever you go. This fleece is warm enough to be an outer layer, but lightweight enough to fit underneath a coat for chilly nights, or even out on the slopes!

This jacket features a full length front zipper, and zippered side pockets to hold your keys and personal effects safely out on the trail. The iconic Muir Woods logo, created by artist Michael Schwab is carefully embroidered on the front, which gives the image depth and texture.