Spokane Children's Home in the 1930s

ID: 5304 ~ Source: Tinsley, Jesse. “Then and Now: Spokane Children’s Home.” Spokesman Review, November 10, 2014. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/nov/10/then-and-now-spokane-childrens-home/. ~ Creator: “Image courtesy of Spokesman Review.” ~ Date: 1930s
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Children played outside as the employees of the Spokane Children’s Home watched.

This file appears in: Spokane Children’s Home

By William Paaga
While the Spokane Children’s Home provided shelter for homeless and delinquent children during the era before public assistance the facility is best remembered for a 1930s scandal.   The Ladies Benevolent Society of Spokan Falls formed in 1884 to…