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Title: Two men at California Institution for Women, Tehachapi, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: November, 1933
1933-11
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Two men, possibly Deputy Warden Uriah A. Smith and guard Archie Thornton, in suits and ties, shorter man on left wearing hat, both standing near 2 wooden doors in brick building
Related to the article “Man Rules at Tehachapi, New State Women’s Prison is No Adamless Eden; Comfort Feature of Luxurious Institution.” Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 1933: A1. The article states: … Yet neither is Uriah A. Smith, deputy warden at the institution, happy … at the gates, between two rows of fences, Archie Thornton, six feet, three inches in height, stands on guard … He isn’t happy either. …
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California, Tehachipi, Womens prison, 1933
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: 0856
uclamss_1429_0856
ark:/21198/zz002db6n8
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Women's prisons--California--Tehachapi
California Institution for Women (Tehachapi, Calif.)
Thornton, Archie Clement, 1894-1978
Smith, Uriah Absalom, 1875-1956
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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