This 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate pictures a two-story building plus a basement with daylight windows set in a treed-lawn behind a fence and sidewalk. Another building sits behind it.
Contributors
Nebraska. Board of Commissioners of State Institutions
Excerpted from: "Sixth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of the Orthopedic Hospital, Lincoln, 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. 336-337.
Historical Notes
The new building was built in 1914-1915 and occupied March 1, 1915. The building had reception, dining and school rooms, offices, laboratory, library, surgical department, and three wards which could hold 40 beds. Instead of staircases, the floors were connected by inclines.
