Mayors election; Political campaigns; Political cartoons
Article clipped from the 1906 November 27 edition of the Los Angeles Express discusses the grand jury investigation into the Whittier Reform School. A cartoon entitled "How would Roosevelt vote?" shows Theodore Roosevelt examining a list of the...
Article from the 1889 July 27 edition of the Whittier Pointer reports on Governor Waterman's visit to Whittier regarding the Whittier State School for Boys.
Newspapers; Schools; Reformatories; Whittier (Calif.); Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.)
An article from the 1891 July 6 edition of the Los Angeles Express reports on the suggestion by the Whittier Pointer to call for the press to use the name Whittier State School instead of the Whittier Reform School.
Whittier (Calif.); Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.); Reformatories; Children; Campbell, Fred M.; Industrial arts; Education; Letters; Schools; Educators; Winship, Albert E. (Albert Edward), 1845-1933
An article from the 1892 April 7 edition of the Whittier Register reports that Fred M. Campbell visited the reform school in Whittier. The article includes letters from boys who previously and currently live at the school. It also reports that...
Whittier (Calif.); Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.); Reformatories; Children; Churches; Church services; Schools; Letters
An article from the 1892 April 28 edition of the Whittier Register reports that Reverend Thos. Armstrong conducted Sunday chapel services at the reform school in Whittier. The article also includes a letter from J. W. Anderson, state...
Whittier (Calif.); Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.); Reformatories; Libraries; Books; Women Societies and clubs; Women; Health boards; Physicians; Electricity; Children
An article from the 1892 May 5 edition of the Whittier Register reports that books have been sent to the reform school in Whittier. It also reports that the state board of health spent time inspecting the sanitary conditions of the school. In...
Article from the 1889 July 27 edition of the Whittier Pointer reports that Governor Waterman has approved the building of the state reformatory in Whittier, California.
Dinners and dining; Governors; Whittier (Calif.); Lectures and lecturing; Reformatories; Asylums; Schools
Article from the 1889 July 27 edition of the Whittier Pointer reports on a reception and dinner given for Governor Waterman at the Greenleaf Hotel in Whittier.
Newspapers; Reformatories; Whittier (Calif.); Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.); Schools; Legislators United States
An article from the 1891 July 3 edition of the Sacramento Record-Union reports that newspapers concur that the press should refer to the Whittier juvenile reformatory as the Whittier State School so it does not stigmatize the children as a criminal...
Whittier (Calif.); Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.); Reformatories; Children; Juvenile delinquents; Schools; San Francisco (Calif.); Birthdays; Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892; Boys and Girls Aid Society of California
An article from the 1891 December 30 edition of the California Christian Advocate reports on the celebration of John Greenleaf Whittier's birthday and the notorious Tommy Maloney.
Whittier (Calif.); Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.); Reformatories; School board members; Singers; Music; Schools; Presidents; Holidays; Birthdays; Children; Trusts and trustees
An article from the 1892 March 3 edition of the Whittier Register reports that Professor F. A. Foshay, superintendent of Monrovia schools, comes to the reform school every Saturday and drills the boys in choir singing. It also reports on J. R....
Military; Rites and ceremonies; Whittier (Calif.); Schools; Reformatories
Article from the 1890 February 6 edition of the Free Press reports that Company F has been ordered to go to Whittier to attend the corner stone laying ceremony for the Whittier State School for Boys.
Rites and ceremonies; Whittier (Calif.); Reformatories; Schools; Invitation cards
Invitation to the corner stone laying ceremony for the Whittier State School for Boys on 1890 January 29. There is a blue ink stamp on the upper right corner that says, "Postponed to Feb. 12."
Whittier (Calif.); Reformatories; Schools; Water; Citrus; Cities and towns Growth; Pico, Pio, 1801-1894; San Gabriel River Valley (Calif.); Agriculture
Article from the 1891 September 5 edition of the Los Angeles Times discusses Whittier's water system, Ranchito del Fuerte, and the Whittier State School.
