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Category: 
Event
Additional Images: 
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Sub Categories: 
Illustrations
Animals
Text on Button: 
22nd ANNUAL CONFERENCE, STATE CHARITIES & CORRECTION INDIANA GARY, IND., NOV. 15-18, 1913
Image Description: 

Black text on a white background around the outer edge of an illustration of a person in red and blue with an ax and a gree and a black animal on green grass

Back Style: 
Unlocking pin
The Shape: 
Circle
The Size: 
1 1/4 inch
Year / Decade Made: 
1913
1910s
Additional Information: 

The Board of State Charities and Correction served as an umbrella agency overseeing the many State Institutions and facilities in Indiana from 1888-1935. These institutions included: prisons and correctional facilities, state hospitals, eugenics exhibit, orphans and foster children, school for the blind, school for the deaf, county poor asylums and orphanages.

Sources: 

Genealogy. (n.d.) Indiana Archives and Record Administration. Retrieved from https://www.in.gov/iara/3017.htm

Catalog ID: 
EV0633
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