Industrial Building, State Industrial School, Kearney
Description
A white, multi-story brick building with a steeple, chimneys and stack is featured in this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate. Two horse-drawn buggies and men sit in the front of the building.
Excerpted from: "Seventeenth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of the State Industrial School" In First Biennial Report of the Board of Commissioners of State Institutions to the Governor and Legislature of the State of Nebraska for the Biennium Ending November 30, 1914 (Lincoln: Nebraska Board of Commissioners of State Institutions, 1914), plate between pp. 144-145
Historical Notes
Boys attended school for four hours per day, five days per week from fall to spring. Various trades practiced at the school included carpentry, shoe making, laundry, painting, engineering, tailoring, cooking and baking, printing, gardening and agriculture. Today this institution exists as the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center--Kearney. Further statistics and information can be found in the report.
