Boys at work in beet field, Nebraska State Industrial School, Kearney
Description
A long line of boys stand in a field with two men standing behind them in this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate. The boys wear overalls and hats and hold the long handled tools.
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. 176-177.
Historical Notes
In addition to school studies and training in trades such as carpentry, shoe repair, and tailoring, the boys helped raise farm animals and crops for their tables and for sale. In the 1916-1916 biennium, 1,000 bushels of table beets and 941 tons of sugar beets were harvested at the school.
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