Section of sewing room in Industrial Building, Nebraska Hospital for the Insane, Lincoln
Description
A number of women sit in a room in wooden chairs and rockers sewing in this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate. The large room is divided by a temporary wall and a chiming wall clock hangs between two windows.
Contributors
Nebraska. Board of Commissioners of State Institutions
Excerpted from: "Twenty-third Biennial Report of the Superintendent of the Nebraska Hospital for the Insane, Lincoln, Nebraska" In Second 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, 1916 (Lincoln: Nebraska Board of Commissioners of State Institutions, 1914), plate between pp. 248-249.
Historical Notes
During the 1915-1916 biennium, patients' sewing projects included 955 aprons, 3,239 towels, 875 candy bags, 755 chemise and gowns, and 148 rugs.
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