Broken window, Ventura School for Girls, Ventura, 1921

Item Overview

Title

Broken window, Ventura School for Girls, Ventura, 1921

Photographer

Watson, George R., 1892-1977

Date Created

March 1, 1921

Date

1921-03-01

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Broken glass in barred window, with wire mesh layer, set in brick or stone wall, photographed from outside, with person's face visible inside at bottom of window
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 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 newspaper caption: In Spectacular Revolt at Ventura State Girls’ School. Taken just as she smashed window in her jail cell. 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

Names

Ventura School for Girls (Ventura, Calif.)

Location

Ventura (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Windows--California--Ventura
Reformatories--California--Ventura
Broken glass
Prison riots--California--Ventura