Author: Martin Gottlieb
Publisher: Lantern Books
ISBN: 9781930051966
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Through compelling black-and-white photography and informative, engaging text, this book chronicles the work of one of the nation's most remarkable social service institutions, the New York Foundling Hospital. As this book eloquently demonstrates, the Foundling is an institution that from its very inception was committed to helping society's most vulnerable members: children.
The Foundling
Author: Martin Gottlieb
Publisher: Lantern Books
ISBN: 9781930051966
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Through compelling black-and-white photography and informative, engaging text, this book chronicles the work of one of the nation's most remarkable social service institutions, the New York Foundling Hospital. As this book eloquently demonstrates, the Foundling is an institution that from its very inception was committed to helping society's most vulnerable members: children.
Publisher: Lantern Books
ISBN: 9781930051966
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Through compelling black-and-white photography and informative, engaging text, this book chronicles the work of one of the nation's most remarkable social service institutions, the New York Foundling Hospital. As this book eloquently demonstrates, the Foundling is an institution that from its very inception was committed to helping society's most vulnerable members: children.
The New York Foundling Hospital
Author: Carolee R. Inskeep
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
New York Foundling Hospital was formed on 11 October 1869 by Mary Irene Fitzgibbon, a member of the New York Sisters of Charity. It manages more than forty programs for infants, youths, young parents, and families, and emphasizes home care.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
New York Foundling Hospital was formed on 11 October 1869 by Mary Irene Fitzgibbon, a member of the New York Sisters of Charity. It manages more than forty programs for infants, youths, young parents, and families, and emphasizes home care.
Abandoned
Author: Julie Miller
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 081475726X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
"In Abandoned, Julie Miller offers a fascinating, frustrating, and often heartbreaking history of a once devastating problem that wracked New York City. Filled with anecdotes and personal stories, Miller traces the shift in attitudes toward foundlings from ignorance, apathy, and sometimes pity to recognition of their plight as a sign of urban moral decline in need of systematic intervention."--Back cover.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 081475726X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
"In Abandoned, Julie Miller offers a fascinating, frustrating, and often heartbreaking history of a once devastating problem that wracked New York City. Filled with anecdotes and personal stories, Miller traces the shift in attitudes toward foundlings from ignorance, apathy, and sometimes pity to recognition of their plight as a sign of urban moral decline in need of systematic intervention."--Back cover.
Children of Hope
Author: Elsie Essmuller Vignec
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
At the Foundling Hospital
Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374158118
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
"At the Foundling Hospital considers the foundling soul: its need to be adopted, and its need to be adaptive. These poems reimagine identity on the scale of one life or of human history: from 'the emanation of a dead star still alive' to the 'pinhole iris of your mortal eye'"--Amazon.com.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374158118
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
"At the Foundling Hospital considers the foundling soul: its need to be adopted, and its need to be adaptive. These poems reimagine identity on the scale of one life or of human history: from 'the emanation of a dead star still alive' to the 'pinhole iris of your mortal eye'"--Amazon.com.
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
Author: Linda Gordon
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674061713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. The Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction tells this disturbing and dramatic tale to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. Clifton/Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild West" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. Racial walls hardened as the mines became big business and whiteness became a marker of superiority. These already volatile race and class relations produced passions that erupted in the "orphan incident." To the Anglos of Clifton/Morenci, placing a white child with a Mexican family was tantamount to child abuse, and they saw their kidnapping as a rescue. Women initiated both sides of this confrontation. Mexican women agreed to take in these orphans, both serving their church and asserting a maternal prerogative; Anglo women believed they had to "save" the orphans, and they organized a vigilante squad to do it. In retelling this nearly forgotten piece of American history, Linda Gordon brilliantly recreates and dissects the tangled intersection of family and racial values, in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the "best interests of the child."
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674061713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. The Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction tells this disturbing and dramatic tale to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. Clifton/Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild West" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. Racial walls hardened as the mines became big business and whiteness became a marker of superiority. These already volatile race and class relations produced passions that erupted in the "orphan incident." To the Anglos of Clifton/Morenci, placing a white child with a Mexican family was tantamount to child abuse, and they saw their kidnapping as a rescue. Women initiated both sides of this confrontation. Mexican women agreed to take in these orphans, both serving their church and asserting a maternal prerogative; Anglo women believed they had to "save" the orphans, and they organized a vigilante squad to do it. In retelling this nearly forgotten piece of American history, Linda Gordon brilliantly recreates and dissects the tangled intersection of family and racial values, in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the "best interests of the child."
The History of the New York Foundling Hospital
Author: Sister Marie Daniel, S. C. Hannon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
London's Forgotten Children
Author: Gillian Pugh
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752480200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
In 1739, the London Foundling Hospital opened its doors to take in the abandoned children of the city. It was the culmination of seventeen years of campaigning by Captain Thomas Coram, driven by his horror at seeing children die in the streets. He was supported in his endeavours by a royal charter and by William Hogarth and George Frideric Handel. The Hospital would continue as both home and school for over 215 years, raising thousands of children until they could be apprenticed out. London's Forgotten Children is a fascinating history of the first children's charity, charting the rise of this incredible institution and examining the attitude towards illegitimate children over the years. The story comes alive with the voices of children who grew up in the Hospital, and the concluding, fully updated, account of today's children's charity Coram is an ongoing testament to the vision of its founder.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752480200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
In 1739, the London Foundling Hospital opened its doors to take in the abandoned children of the city. It was the culmination of seventeen years of campaigning by Captain Thomas Coram, driven by his horror at seeing children die in the streets. He was supported in his endeavours by a royal charter and by William Hogarth and George Frideric Handel. The Hospital would continue as both home and school for over 215 years, raising thousands of children until they could be apprenticed out. London's Forgotten Children is a fascinating history of the first children's charity, charting the rise of this incredible institution and examining the attitude towards illegitimate children over the years. The story comes alive with the voices of children who grew up in the Hospital, and the concluding, fully updated, account of today's children's charity Coram is an ongoing testament to the vision of its founder.
The Foundling
Author: Georgette Heyer
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402228066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Queen of Regency Romance, Georgette Heyer, delights readers with a charming tale of a duke who is tired of playing by the rules. The Duke of Sale is out to prove himself The shy, young Duke of Sale has never known his parents. Instead, his Grace Adolphus Gillespie Vernon Ware, Gilly for short, has endured twenty-four years of rigorous mollycoddling from his uncle and valet. But his natural diffidence conceals a rebellious spirit. A mysterious beauty provides the perfect opportunity When Gilly hears of Belinda, the beautiful foundling who appears to be blackmailing his cousin, he escapes with glee. But he has no sooner entered this new and dangerous world than he is plunged into a frenzy of intrigue, kidnapping, adventure, and surprises at every turn. Praise for Georgette Heyer and The Foundling: "What happens when a many-titled Duke decides to play hooky from his suffocating dignity..."—Kirkus Reviews "Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."—Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402228066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Queen of Regency Romance, Georgette Heyer, delights readers with a charming tale of a duke who is tired of playing by the rules. The Duke of Sale is out to prove himself The shy, young Duke of Sale has never known his parents. Instead, his Grace Adolphus Gillespie Vernon Ware, Gilly for short, has endured twenty-four years of rigorous mollycoddling from his uncle and valet. But his natural diffidence conceals a rebellious spirit. A mysterious beauty provides the perfect opportunity When Gilly hears of Belinda, the beautiful foundling who appears to be blackmailing his cousin, he escapes with glee. But he has no sooner entered this new and dangerous world than he is plunged into a frenzy of intrigue, kidnapping, adventure, and surprises at every turn. Praise for Georgette Heyer and The Foundling: "What happens when a many-titled Duke decides to play hooky from his suffocating dignity..."—Kirkus Reviews "Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."—Publishers Weekly
A Home for Foundlings
Author: Marthe Jocelyn
Publisher: Tundra Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Describes the life and times of Thomas Coram and his goal of establishing a safe refuge for abandoned babies in the early 1700s.
Publisher: Tundra Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Describes the life and times of Thomas Coram and his goal of establishing a safe refuge for abandoned babies in the early 1700s.