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

Author/Contributor(s):	Dulberger, Judith A
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Date:	04/01/1996
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.