Cottage row and west hospital, Nebraska Soldiers' and Sailors Home, Burkett
Description
The long building to the right in this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate is the west convalescent hospital. A sidewalk and rows of trees separate the lawns between the hospital and the row of cottages to the left. An man with a white beard and mustache stands under a tree before the first cottage.
Contributors
Nebraska. Board of Commissioners of State Institutions
Excerpted from: "Fifteenth Biennial Report of the Commandant of the Nebraska Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Burkett, Nebraska" 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. 194-195.
Historical Notes
In addition to the main hospital, there were two convalescent hospital buildings--the West Hospital and the East Hospital.
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