Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Two small buildings with turret roofs, on each side of driveway crossed by chain-link fence, with gate in fence and gate between turrets, with 3 men standing on driveway, 3 parked cars partially visible behind gatehouse, institution buildings and hills in background Possibly related to the article “Tehachapi Prison Will Wait Fence, No Women to Be Sent to New Institution Until Safeguard Finished,” Los Angeles Times, 6 July 1933: A8. The article states: … Women will be sent to the Tehachapi institution in small numbers until they have all been removed from San Quentin. The new building group was dedicated by Gov. Rolph last year, and since that time has been unoccupied, due to the refusal of the warden to be responsible for prisoners until the buildings had been fenced in. … Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California, Tehachipi, Womens prison, 1933
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_0850 0850 ark:/21198/zz002db6f5
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Subject
Women's prisons--California--Tehachapi California Institution for Women (Tehachapi, Calif.)
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