Subject: Canyons--California--Malibu - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: A different photograph taken on the same day appears with the article, “Crowded Jail Forces Prisoners Into Open,” Los Angeles Times, 15 May 1921: II1.
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:: 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 row of inmates stand at the entrance of a prison labor camp. Frank Carpenter, assistant prison guard, stands at the right in a long black overcoat. A cluster of white tents are seen behind the men.
Date:: [circa May 14, 1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “Crowded Jail Forces Prisoners Into Open,” Los Angeles Times, 15 May 1921: II1.
Date:: [circa May 14, 1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit was a 13,316-acre Spanish land grant given by Spanish Governor José Joaquín de Arrillaga in 1804 to José Bartolomé Tapia. In 1892 Frederick Hastings Rindge and May Knight Rindge, purchased the rancho. In 1926, the Marblehead Land Company, formed by May Knight Rindge, made a $6 million deal with Harold G. Ferguson to develop the La Costa area (between Las Flores Canyon and Carbon Canyon), but that deal fell apart when Ferguson was sentenced to jail for securities fraud in 1931. Ferguson laid out the development with street names as they remain today: Rambla Vista, Paseo Serra, etc. It took until the mid 1930's for development of the area to begin in earnest.
Date:: [circa 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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