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This photograph shows women gardeners in front of the vegetable storage cave at the Women's Industrial Farm in Lansing, Kansas. In 1916, this facility was established, and, for a year, it was a branch of the men's prison at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Leavenworth County. In 1917, it began operating as a separate, satellite unit. The Industrial Farm was under the supervision of the State Board of Administration before coming under the control of the Board of Penal Institutions, which was eventually reorganized as the Department of Corrections. It housed women who had committed crimes against the state. In 1980, the facility became co-correctional and the name was changed to the Kansas Correctional Institution at Lansing in 1983.
Date: 1936
Item Number: 229177
Call Number: FK2.7 PEW.1938 *7
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 229177
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1930s - 1936
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Prisoners
Government and Politics - State Government - State agencies and programs - Agencies - Industrial Farm for Women
Home and Family - Daily life - Gardening
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Women
Places - Cities and towns - Lansing
Places - Counties - Leavenworth
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Type of Material - Photographs
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