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Title: Cottage A at Tehachapi Women's Prison, Tehachapi, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: June 17, 1935
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.
This cottage is most likely where murderer Clara Phillips was staying at Tehachapi Women's Prison when she was incarcerated for killing her husband's lover.
Dates on negative sleeve do not correspond with reporting on Clara Phillips’ release from prison, which was on June 17, 1935.
This photograph is likely related to the article, "Murderess, Free, Leaves With Sisters," Los Angeles Times, 18 Jun 1935: 1.
Handwritten on negative: Cottage A at Techachapi [sic]
Text from negative sleeve: 1095-- Cottage A. at Techachapi [sic] 7-7-35 [stamped:] JUL 17 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7415
ark:/21198/zz002df3jm
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Dwellings--California
Prisons--California
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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