Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph, cropped to show only the girl, 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 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. Girl in skirt and middy blouse, hand on head, turned to face man in shirt, trousers, and hat, both walking on sidewalk between buildings, with stairs in background and wire mesh enclosure at right Text from newspaper caption: In Spectacular Revolt at Ventura State Girls’ School. On her way back from County Jail. 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
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
0843 uclamss_1429_0843 ark:/21198/zz002db66j
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Prison riots--California--Ventura Reformatories--California--Ventura Ventura School for Girls (Ventura, Calif.)
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