Group of buildings, State Industrial School, Kearney
Description
Five brick buildings are in the background of this 6-1/2" x 3-1/2" black and white plate. In the foreground is an open field. Half-grown trees line the roads and fill some of the yards between buildings.
Excerpted from: "Seventeenth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of the State 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. 138-139
Historical Notes
Until 1892, delinquent boys and girls of Nebraska were cared for at this 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. As of December 1, 1912, 173 boys resided at the school, as of November 30, 1914, they numbered 203. Today this institution exists as the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center--Kearney. Further statistics and information can be found in the report.
