Eleven women dressed in white holding their rolled diplomas stand on a circle sidewalk with flowers in the center in this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate. Trees fill the background.
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. 128-129
Historical Notes
Girls at the institution attended school for four and a half hours per day and spent four hours per day in industrial training: a rotation between kitchen duty, laundry, sewing and general housework. Today this institution exists as the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center--Geneva. Further statistics and information can be found in the report.
