Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. 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 Ventura School for Girls, about 9 2-story buildings with porches, dormers, and windows with shutters, on hillside with dirt road in foreground, hills in background Text from newspaper caption: In Spectacular Revolt at Ventura State Girls’ School. Panorama of the school. 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
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Image
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_0842 0842 ark:/21198/zz002db651
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Prison riots--California--Ventura Reformatories--California--Ventura Ventura School for Girls (Ventura, Calif.)
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