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Title
California Institution for Women, Tehachapi, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued
1932
Publication Information
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information
US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Two-story Norman-style building at California Institution for Women, with steeply pitched roof, turret at left, dormers, and chimneys, with American and California flags near entry, parked car at left, dirt area and saplings in foreground, hills in background
A similar photograph appears with the article “Good-Bye San Quentin, California Discards Iron Bars in its New Prison for Women,” Los Angeles Times, 15 May 1932: J1, with caption: One of the attractive buildings at the new California Institution for Women.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California, Tehachipi, Womens prison, 1933
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_0848
ark:/21198/zz002db6c4
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Women's prisons--California--Tehachapi
California Institution for Women (Tehachapi, Calif.)
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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