View of campus, Nebraska Institution for Feeble-Minded Youth, Beatrice
Description
In this fall picture, almost leafless trees stand in lines across the yard in front of three buildings in this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate. At the left is the new school and auditorium building, in the center distance can be seen the two-story porches on a cottage dormitory and, to the right, is the main administration building.
Contributors
Nebraska. Board of Commissioners of State Institutions
Excerpted from: "Sixteenth Biennial Reports of the Superintendent of the Nebraska Institution for Feeble-Minded Youth" In the 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. 136-137.
Historical Notes
Located three miles west of downtown Beatrice, the Institute housed tuberculosis patients as well as mentally disabled patients.
Nebraska Library Commission
