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Title: Calif. Institution for Women
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Interior view of the California Institution for Women at Corona on July 10, 1954, showing the industrial sewing room, wherer a gross yearly business of $200,000 is done. Among the many items they make are their own clothes and also clothes for men at San Quentin and Chino prisons. Other buildings house ceramics shops, laundry and school classrooms.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00058398
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2358.
CARL0000060309
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21898
Subject: California Institution for Women (Corona, Calif.)
Prisons--California--Corona
Women--California--Corona
Sewing
Corona (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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