State Charities and Correction

State Charities and Correction Event Button Museum
Category
Event
Additional Images
State Charities and Correction button back Event Button Museum
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