Mother Donit Fore the Best: Correspondence of a Nineteenth-Century Orphan Asylum

by Judith A. Dulberger

These letters from the Albany Orphan Asylum in New York demonstrate how institutions in the late 19th century provided a social service. The volume comprises letters from parents to their children and to the asylum superintendents, as well as letters from children placed out to indenture.

Genres: History

212 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1996