From collection General Photograph Collection
Municipal Farm Departments of Work
Photographs of the Kansas City Municipal Farm and Municipal Correctional Institution, including Leeds Tuberculosis Hospital, or Sanitarium. Front of completed building - View of the front of the newly completed women's reformatory building, circa 1920 Municipal Farm Departments of Work - A line-up of the farm's truck and horse-drawn wagon brigade in front of 1919 reformatory building with flags, signs and banners advertising the jobs prisoners could do at the farm. The banners read, from left vehicle to right vehicle: Municipal Farm Departments of Work - Garden, Flowers, Shoe Making, Dairy, Cannery, Laundry, Poultry, Bakery, Tailor-Shop, Hogs, Building, Teams-Trucks, Fruit, Blacksmithing, Quarry Municipal Farm Food Factory - Cannery, Bakery - there is another banner with some statistics about how much food was produced last year at the time photograph was taken, but is unreadable. We construct our own buildings - $25,000.00 saved last year on buildings - We put the work in work house Municipal Farm Dairy Products - 1500 Gallons Milk Per Month, Milk for Eily Hospitals - Model Grade "A" Dairy Municipal Farm makes men through local care, work, education, recreation
