A large three-story building with two steeples, dormers, and a circular two-level front porch is in this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate. Lines of women stand on the stairs and front lawn, two flags hanging from the porch railings and trees in front of the building.
Excerpted from: "Twelfth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of the Girls' Industrial School" In First 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, 1914 (Lincoln: Nebraska Board of Commissioners of State Institutions, 1914), plate between pp. 122-123
Historical Notes
Until 1892 the delinquent boys and girls of Nebraska were cared for in a institution at Kearney, but an act by the Legislature of 1891 made a separate school for girls and the small population at Kearney was transferred to Geneva. Inmates were "neglected, delinquent, and too often morally defective girls." As of November 30, 1913, 86 girls resided at the school, as of November 30, 1914, the number was 100. Today this institution exists as the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center--Geneva. Further statistics and information can be found in the report.
