Cottage "D", Nebraska State Industrial School, Kearney, Nebraska
Description
Thirty members of the band sit or stand with their instruments in front of a two-story building with a daylight basement and a large front porch in this 5-3/4" x 4" black and white plate. A man and woman stand to the right of the back row of boys on the porch. Trees grow on each side in the lawn on either side of the sidewalk leading up to the building.
Contributors
Nebraska. Board of Commissioners of State Institutions
Excerpted from: "Eighteenth Biennial Reports of the Superintendent of the State 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. 164-166.
Historical Notes
The band at the school numbered 38 members in the 1915-1916 biennium. Overall the population of juvenile delinquent boys at the school averaged 200 in these years.
