The staircase on the front the large four-story building in this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate leads to a second level covered porch entry. The building has a stone foundation and a turret at the side. Trees line the sidewalk which runs under the front porch.
Contributors
Nebraska. Board of Commissioners of State Institutions
Excerpted from: "Fourteenth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of the Ingleside Hospital for the Insane" 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. 212-213.
Historical Notes
With some overcrowding, the facility as of 1916 could hold 1,150 patients and, as of November 30, 1916, was at capacity with 746 male and 404 female patients. The superintendent asked for funds to build more housing as "We have had to discourage commitment of many persons who should be receiving hospital care.
