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Title
Young man demonstrates his punishment at reformatory
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1940
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Published on page 26 of Local News. New York, N.Y. : Lookout, c1999.
Layton Clark, who was released from Whittier State School in 1939, demonstrates how he was punished by being forced to eat off the floor while his hands were tied behind his back. Photograph dated August 19, 1940.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00057595
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 134; HE-001-423 4x5
CARL0000062434
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22578
Subject
Investigations--California--Los Angeles
Problem children--Institutional care--California--Whittier
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Time Period
1931-1940

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