General kitchen, Girls' Industrial School, Geneva, Nebraska
Description
Girls prepare food at tables in a large kitchen in this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate. The girls wear long aprons over dark dresses and most wear hats. A supervisor dressed all in white stands at the back in front of storage cabinets. Kettles and a teapot sit on a large stove set against the wall to the right. Loaves of fresh baked bread and the pans they were removed from sit on the table at the center.
Contributors
Nebraska. Board of Commissioners of State Institutions
Excerpted from: "Thirteenth Biennial Reports of the Superintendent of the Girls' Industrial School" 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. 160-161.
Historical Notes
Instruction at the Industrial Home included cooking, baking, sewing and housework in addition to regular schoolwork and music.
