Boys in a field gather oats in this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate. The boys wear hats and overalls and in the background are buildings of the school.
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. 152-153
Historical Notes
The school raised much of its own food, as did many other state institution, some of which was sold to help support the institution. Today this institution exists as the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center--Kearney. Further statistics and information can be found in the report.
