With Christmas just over a week away, DCist will act as a ghost of holidays past and bring you vintage photos of Washingtonians celebrating the season. We begin today with photos from the D.C. Jail.

The photos were taken in the old District Jail, built in 1872 and demolished in 1976, located at East Capital and 19th Streets SE. One photo, taken between 1909 and 1932, shows a group of prisoners sitting in front of a rather large Christmas tree. The others were taken between 1921 and 1923.