Girl and man, Ventura School for Girls, Ventura, 1921

Item Overview

Title

Girl and man, Ventura School for Girls, Ventura, 1921

Photographer

Watson, George R., 1892-1977

Date Created

March 1, 1921

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Girl in skirt and middy blouse, hand on head, turned to face man in shirt, trousers, and hat, both walking on sidewalk between buildings, with stairs in background and wire mesh enclosure at right
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.
This photograph, cropped to show only the girl, 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

Caption

Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California State School for Girls
Text from newspaper caption: In Spectacular Revolt at Ventura State Girls’ School. On her way back from County Jail. 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

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Prison riots--California--Ventura
Reformatories--California--Ventura

Names

Ventura School for Girls (Ventura, Calif.)

Location

Ventura (Calif.)

Longitude

34.308017

Latitude

-119.283682

Resource type

still image