Youngest and oldest wards of the Home, Nebraska Home for Dependent Children, Lincoln
Description
A woman dressed in black sits in a wooden rocker holding a baby in this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate. The woman is 80 years old and the infant 2 days old. Lace curtains hang at the window behind them.
Contributors
Nebraska. Board of Commissioners of State Institutions
Excerpted from: "Seventeenth Biennial Report of the Agent of the Nebraska Home for Dependent Children, Lincoln, Nebraska" 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. 486-487.
Historical Notes
Children abandoned, neglected or committed by the court for other reasons were placed by the Home with adoptive or foster families. One hundred or more children were placed per year by the Home which regularly housed between 200 and 300 children.
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