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A photograph of the hospitals at the State Orphans Home in Atchison, Kansas. In 1887 Kansas opened the Soldiers' Orphans' Home in Atchison for children of Union soldiers and sailors. This was the first such facility in the state for children who had lost their parents. At first limited to veterans' children aged five and under, regulations were altered in 1889 to admit all "dependent, neglected or abused children" between the ages of two and 14. The name was changed to the State Orphans' Home in 1909.
Creator: Lotus Engraving Company
Date: 1936
Item Number: 229087
Call Number: FK2.7 O.1936 *5
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 229087
Built Environment - Function - Health Care - Hospital
Business and Industry - Health care - Hospitals
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Community services - Welfare - Welfare facilities - Orphanages
Date - 1930s - 1936
Government and Politics - State Government - State agencies and programs - Agencies - Soldiers Orphans Home
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Atchison
Places - Counties - Atchison
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Type of Material - Photographs
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