Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes. Photograph caption dated September 24, 1938 reads, "Here is a view of the Tehachapi fair, showing the gaily decorated entrance to the compound. Each prisoner was given $2 in homemade money to spend at the various booths and concessions. They had a gay day eating popcorn, cakes and other dainties they had made themselves, and in watching vaudeville acts, Punch and Judy shows and playing bingo games."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm. Photographic prints
California Institution for Women (Tehachapi, Calif.) Fairs--California--Tehachapi Women--California--Tehachapi Reformatories for women--California--Tehachapi Prisons--California--Tehachapi Flags--United States Tehachapi (Calif.) Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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