Wayside Honor Ranch ranks high as unique prison farm
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Valley Times Photo Collection
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This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated November 25, 1955 reads "Crop for county. Vegetable growing proves interesting for inmates and lucrative for county. Yearly rancho yield of 206,000 pounds of assorted vegetables and 33,000 pounds of fruit in addition to meat and grain goes long way toward feeding some 4,000 county prisoners in custody of sheriff during fiscal year. Bakery also turns out 60,000 loaves of bread per month." The article partially reads "It's the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Wayside Honor Rancho at Castaic, embracing approximately 3,000 acres of rolling, fertile hills that not only produce game birds, fruit, alfalfa and blue ribbon livestock, but also oil."; See images #00134971 through #00134977 for all photos in this series.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
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