Clouds gather overhead in this 6" x 4-1/4" black and white plate showing two women standing in a field with several buildings and smokestacks behind a line of trees.
Excerpted from: "Thirteenth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane of Nebraska, Norfolk, Nebraska" 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. 298-299
Historical Notes
Established by the legislature in 1885, the hospital on December 1, 1912, housed 210 male and 198 female patients, and, as of November 30, 1914, 226 male and 231 female patients. Today this institution exists as the Norfolk Regional Center. Further statistics and information can be found in the report.
