Download or read book A Study of the Albany Orphan Asylum written by Martha D. Ritter and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Albany Orphan Asylum written by ALBANY ORPHAN ASYLUM, ALBANY, N. Y. and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Story of the Albany Orphan Asylum written by Henry P. Phelps and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mother Donit Fore the Best written by Judith A. Dulberger and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Mother Donit fore the Best' is a touching collection of letters from the Albany Orphan Asylum in upstate New York-letters from parents to their children and to the asylum superintendent, as well as letters from children placed out on indenture and away from their families.

Download or read book Story of the Albany Orphan Asylum Established 1829 written by Henry Pitt Phelps and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Constitution Act of Incorporation and By laws of the Orphan Asylum Albany written by Albany Orphan Asylum and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Albany County Almshouse written by Albany County Almshouse (Albany County, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Constitution Act of Incorporation and By laws of the Orphan Asylum Albany written by Albany Society for the Relief of Orphan and Destitute Children (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Angels of Mercy written by William Seraile and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the nation’s first orphanage for African American children, founded in New York City nearly two centuries ago. This book uncovers the history of the Colored Orphan Asylum, founded in 1836. Through three wars, two major financial panics, a devastating fire during the 1863 Draft Riots, several epidemics, waves of racial prejudice, and severely strained budgets, it cared for orphaned, neglected, and delinquent children, eventually receiving financial support from such renowned New York families as the Jays, Murrays, Roosevelts, Macys, and Astors. While the white female managers and their male advisers were dedicated to uplifting these children, the evangelical, mainly Quaker founding managers also exhibited the extreme paternalistic views endemic at the time, accepting advice or support from the African American community only grudgingly. It was frank criticism in 1913 from W.E.B. Du Bois that highlighted the conflict between the orphanage and the community it served, and it wasn’t until 1939 that it hired the first black trustee. More than 15,000 children were raised in the orphanage, and throughout its history letters and visits have revealed that hundreds if not thousands of “old boys and girls” looked back with admiration and respect at the home that nurtured them throughout their formative years. Weaving together African American history with a unique history of New York City, this is not only a painstaking study of a previously unsung institution but a unique window onto complex racial dynamics during a period when many failed to recognize equality among all citizens as a worthy purpose. In its current incarnation as Harlem-Dowling West Side Center for Children and Family Services, it continues to aid children (albeit not as an orphanage)—and maintains the principles of the women who organized it so long ago. “Scholars and general readers interested in New York history, race relations, social services, [or] philanthropy . . . will benefit from this work.”?Social Sciences Reviews

Download or read book In Memoriam Albert D Fuller Superintendent of the Albany Orphan Asylum written by S. H. Wentworth and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the Orphan Asylum in Philadelphia with an account of the fire in which twenty three orphans were burned Revised by the Committee of Publication written by Orphan Asylum (PHILADELPHIA) and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book There is Home written by Melba Butler and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of the City of New York written by Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the Orphan Asylum in Philadelphia written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Inside Looking Out written by Gary Edward Polster and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum was for fifty years (1868-1918) the home for some 3,500 boys and girls, most of them immigrants from Eastern Europe. Gary Polster's study examines the efforts of the more acculturated German Jews of Cleveland to "Americanize" and make good workers of the newcomers, and to teach a Judaism quite removed from the Yiddish culture and religious orthodoxy of Eastern Europe. The dominant figure at the asylum during the formative years was Samuel Wofenstein (1841-1921), a native of Moravia who by the age of 22 had earned both a rabbinical degree and a Ph.D in philosophy. He became a trustee of the JOA in 1875 and its superintendent in 1878. For a man who gained a reputation as an authoritarian, his first wish was to free the children from a lock step regimentation, which produced an "institutional type..marked by repression if not atrophy of the impulse to act independent." Wolfenstein stressed obedience through persuasion, through religion (Reform Judaism), and moral exhortations. Students were to be imbued with respect for work through performing useful tasks--the boys in the stables and on the grounds, the girls in the kitchen, the laundry, and the sewing room. The idea of "assimilation" was necessarily paternalistic but many of the German Jews believed that by becoming more "American" and less obviously "Jewish" they would deflect the always present nativism and anti-Semitism. As for the children, they remained for the most part ambivalent about the orphanage and about Wolfenstein and his successors. They were taught some useful skills; they were fed and clothed. Their chief deprivation was of the spirit. Professor Polster brings to his study a sensitivity that complements his grasp of the literature of "asylum" and the social history of turn-of-the-century America. He has listened well to the aging men and women who once were the children "inside looking out."

Download or read book Second Home written by Timothy A. Hacsi and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Timothy Hacsi shows, most children in nineteenth-century orphan asylums were "half-orphans," children with one living parent who was unable to provide for them. The asylums spread widely and endured because different groups - churches, ethnic communities, charitable organizations, fraternal societies, and local and state governments - could adapt them to their own purposes. In the 1890s, critics began to argue that asylums were overcrowded and impersonal. By 1909, advocates called for aid to destitute mothers, and argued that asylums should be a last resort, for short-term care only. Yet orphanages continued to care for most dependent children until the Depression strained asylum budgets and federally funded home care became more widely available. Yet some, Catholic asylums in particular, cared for poor children into the 1950s and 1960s.

Download or read book Report written by New York (State). Department of Social Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports for 1943-1966 include report of the New York State Board of Social Welfare.