Title	Beauty shop photograph
Subject	Photography--Ohio Ohio Reformatory for Women Prisons Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections
Time Period	1950s 1960s
Place	Marysville (Ohio) Union County (Ohio)
Description	Dated ca. 1950-1965, this photograph shows the beauty shop at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, cosmetology being one of the vocational trades offered to inmates. In 1911, the Ohio General Assembly authorized the establishment of a separate women’s penal institution. On September 1, 1916, the Ohio Reformatory for Women opened in Marysville, Ohio, with a population of 34 inmates. When Marguerite Reilley was appointed superintendent of the Reformatory in 1935, she found dirty and unkempt inmates with excessively restricted living habits. She instituted the “human being” program which provided recreation, entertainment, jobs, and vocational training for the inmates. State Archived Series 1679 AV consists of 234 photographs which illustrate daily life in the Ohio Reformatory for Women, as well as photographs of the buildings and grounds, superintendents Marguerite Reilley and Martha Wheeler, and notorious inmate Velma West.
Creator	Ohio Reformatory for Women
Date of Original	ca. 1950-1965
Collection	Photographs of inmates, staff, and buildings, ca. 1935-1965
Source	State Archives Series 1679 AV; Box 1, Folder 13
Format	picture Black-and-white photograph
Submitting Institution	Ohio History Connection
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	SA1679AV_B01_F13_006.tif
Image Height	1838
Image Width	2440
File Size	13479688 Bytes
Date created	2016-08-25

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