Ventura School for Girls, Ventura, 1921

Item Overview

Title

Ventura School for Girls, Ventura, 1921

Photographer

Watson, George R., 1892-1977

Date Created

March 1, 1921

Date

1921-03-01

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

The Ventura School for Girls was established as a correctional facility in 1913, housing girls formerly incarcerated at the Whittier State Reformatory, and in 1962 was moved to Camarillo as part of the California Youth Authority. The location is in northwestern Ventura, later the site of Vista Del Mar Hospital.
Two buildings at the Ventura School for Girls, with walkway and porch with square columns at center, 2-story brick building with barred windows at left, 1-story stone or marble building at right, with chairs on porch, palm trees in left and right foreground
Related to the article “Girls Plotted to Burn Whole School, Escape. Ventura Revolt Laid to Hearst’s Attacks on Institution; Mutiny is Quelled, But More Girls Get Away.” Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 1921

Caption

Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California State School for Girls

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Ventura School for Girls (Ventura, Calif.)

Location

Ventura (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Prison riots--California--Ventura
Reformatories--California--Ventura