Location: Malibu (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Six men in suits, sitting on either bench before the table, are served a meal by the chef, cook, and what appears to be another prison official standing at the head of the table. They are sitting in a spacious tent that features wooden raters and a window.
Date:: [circa May 14, 1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Due to overcrowding in the Los Angeles County Jail, a labor camp was opened in the canyons of Malibu where prison labor was used to build roads connecting to the Pacific Coast Highway. The open-air camp was noted for its lack of chains, steel bars, or handcuffs.
Date:: [circa May 14, 1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 2-story house with Spanish tile roof, with boards against side of house, with patio, steps, and planters in foreground, with cliff, highway, and ocean at left. The edge of the patio pavement is rough as though it broke off in a landslide down the cliff.
Date:: [between 1929-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 2-story house with Spanish tile roof, with boards, chains, and pulleys on patio and against side of house, with overhanging trees, with hills and ocean in left background. In another image of this house the edge of the patio pavement on the cliff side is ragged as though lost in a landslide (uclamss_1429_0435).
Date:: [between 1929-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Due to overcrowding in the Los Angeles County Jail, a labor camp was opened in the canyons of Malibu where prison labor was used to build roads connecting to the Pacific Coast Highway. The open-air camp was noted for its lack of chains, steel bars, or handcuffs.
Date:: [circa May 14, 1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, October 24, 1937, Present from Holland, with caption: The Dutch influence came to Hollywood when Neil Hamilton, pictured on the beach at Malibu with his small daughter, Patricia, presented her with a pair of wooden shoes he brought back from abroad. This was just one of the many presents she received on her birthday.
Date:: October 20, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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