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This postcard shows the Industrial School for Boys in Topeka, Kansas. This facility opened in 1881 under the control of the Board of Trustees of the State Charitable Institutions. The goal of the school was to reform boys under the age of sixteen who had committed criminal acts. Boys were taught to be farmers, dairymen, tailors, carpenters, linemen, cobblers, barbers, cooks, waiters, machinists, and engineers.
Date: 1908
Item Number: 229043
Call Number: FK2.7 IST.1908c. *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 229043
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1900s - 1908
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Juveniles
Government and Politics - State Government - State agencies and programs - Agencies - Industrial School for Boys
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Postcard
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
Type of Material - Photographs
Type of Material - Postcards
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