Honor Farm Opens to Ease Jail Crowding, April 25, 1939

Corrections and rehabilitation as practiced in 1939.

The honor farm will house 600 men who would otherwise be held in jail.

At left, Werner Philipp's portrait of Katherine Dunham, which was found in a Ventura antique store. Read more here >>>

Douglas Fairbanks Sr. gives the Museum of Modern Art his film collection, weighing 13 tons. That's 2.7 million feet of film.

Above, shot in the base of the skull -- but still breathing. At right, a monarch tells his subjects he wants to marry a commoner -- from Dogpatch!