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

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

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

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

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

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