The first hospital, at right, and another building are in the background of this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate. There is a beautiful lawn area with elm trees in the foreground of the photograph.
Excerpted from: "Second Biennial Report of the Superintendent of the Hospital for Tuberculous, Kearney, 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. 364-365
Historical Notes
The Nebraska State Hospital for Tuberculous was provided for by an act of the legislature of 1911 and was located on a thirty acre tract, one mile west of the city of Kearney at an altitude of 2100 feet. The first patients were admitted January 22, 1912. The building to the left in this picture will become the nurses residence, and the hospital, to the right, will become known as the Pavilion. Further statistics and information can be found in the report.
