Ventura School for Girls, Ventura, 1921

Item Overview
- Title
- Ventura School for Girls, Ventura, 1921
- Photographer
- Watson, George R., 1892-1977
- Date Created
- March 1, 1921
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes
- Description
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Ventura School for Girls, about 9 2-story buildings with porches, dormers, and windows with shutters, on hillside with dirt road in foreground, hills in background
This photograph appears with the article “Girls Plotted to Burn Whole School, Escape. Ventura Revolt Laid to Hearst’s Attacks on Institution; Mutiny is Quelled, But More Girls Get Away,” Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 1921
The Ventura School for Girls was established as a correctional facility in 1913, housing girls formerly incarcerated at the Whittier State Reformatory, and in 1962 was moved to Camarillo as part of the California Youth Authority. The location is in northwestern Ventura, later the site of Vista Del Mar Hospital. - Caption
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Text from newspaper caption: In Spectacular Revolt at Ventura State Girls’ School. Panorama of the school. At the end of the girls’ mutiny at Ventura yesterday. Photos by George R. Watson, Times staff photographer, at the Ventura County Jail and the California State School for Girls there.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California State School for Girls
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Subjects
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Reformatories--California--Ventura
Prison riots--California--Ventura - Names
- Ventura School for Girls (Ventura, Calif.)
- Location
- Ventura (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.307236
- Latitude
- -119.282995
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_0842
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002db651
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .