Library and reading room, State Industrial School, Kearney
Description
A number of boys in uniform sit in chairs reading while others look at books in wooden bookcases that line one long wall in this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate. A small card catalog sits on top of one bookcase. The wooden floors are laid in a pattern of dark and light planks.
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. 168-169.
Historical Notes
The remodeling and refurbishing of the library in the 1915-1916 biennium (at a cost of $287.40) included new bookcases. At the end of the biennium, the collection included "1,080 volumes of choice literature.
