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The London Orphan Asylum, Clapton. Engraving, 1838, after T. H. Shepherd.

Two children are brought to the nurses of the Asylum for Female Orphans, Lambeth, London. Etching.

English families taken as hostages in the French Revolution, imprisoned in the orphanage of Arras. Engraving by P. Maxell, 1802, after T. Snagg.

Girard College, Philadelphia. Lithograph by J.C. Wild, 1838, after T.U. Walter.

Limerick Protestant Orphan Hall, Limerick, Ireland. Wood engraving after W. Fogerty, 1856.

Lambeth Female Orphan Asylum (formerly Beddington Park): view of the grounds. Etching by Flemming after T. Allom.

The London Orphan Asylum, Clapton. Engraving by R. Baker, 1823.

The London Orphan Asylum, Clapton: seen from the road. Etching.

Girard College for Orphans, Philadelphia. Engraving by J.W. Steel after T.U. Walter.

Hospice des Orphelines, Paris: floor and street plans and facade. Engraving by J.E. Thierry after H. Bessat, 1808.

Anthropological investigations on one thousand white and colored children of both sexes, the inmates of the New York Juvenile Asylum : with additional notes on one hundred colored children of the New York Colored Orphan Asylum / by Ales Hrdlicka.

Untersuchung der Kost in einigen öffentlichen Anstalten : für Aerzte und Verwaltungsbeamte / in Verbindung mit J. Forster, Fr. Renk und Ad. Schuster ; zusammengestellt von Carl Voit.

Rules and constitutions of the Maiden Hospital, founded by the crafts-men of Edinburgh and Mary Erskin.

Acts of mercy. Oil paintings by Frederick Cayley Robinson, 1915-1920.

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Anthropological investigations on one thousand white and colored children of both sexes, the inmates of the New York Juvenile Asylum : with additional notes on one hundred colored children of the New York Colored Orphan Asylum / by Ales Hrdlicka.

Untersuchung der Kost in einigen öffentlichen Anstalten : für Aerzte und Verwaltungsbeamte / in Verbindung mit J. Forster, Fr. Renk und Ad. Schuster ; zusammengestellt von Carl Voit.

Rules and constitutions of the Maiden Hospital, founded by the crafts-men of Edinburgh and Mary Erskin.

Acts of mercy. Oil paintings by Frederick Cayley Robinson, 1915-1920.

Girard College, Philadelphia. Lithograph by J.C. Wild, 1838, after T.U. Walter.