Records of the New York Foundling Hospital 1869-2009

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Records of the New York Foundling Hospital 1869-2009

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The collection documents the programs and administration of the New York Foundling Hospital, 1869-2009, and the St. Agatha Home for Children, which operated separately from the Foundling beginning in 1884, before merging into the Foundling in 1977. The Foundling opened in 1869, under the auspices of the Sisters of Charity, as a Catholic haven for abandoned babies. It was one of the principal institutions sending children to live with families in the country, in a program known today as the "orphan train." That program ended in 1929. Thereafter the Foundling expanded, diversified, and decentralized. Today the Foundling is an organization providing foster care, adoption, social work, and community-based preventive and health services to children and families in New York and Puerto Rico.

79.0 Linear feet; (79 boxes, 253 volumes)

New-York Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6330569

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Fontana, Vincent J.

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Schwab, Charles M., 1862-1939

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Fitzgibbon, Mary Irene, 1823-1896.

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Bowen, Anna Michella, d. 1928.

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O'Connor, John J. (John Joseph), 1920-2000

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Spellman, Francis, 1889-1967

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McCrystal, Teresa Vincent, d. 1917.

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Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.)

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Barnes, Carol, Sister

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Catholic Church. Archdiocese of New York (N.Y.)

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John O'Kane Murray wrote Popular History of the Catholic Church in the United States. John Talbot Smith was a priest, a novelist, founder of the Catholic Summer School of America, author of History of the the Diocese of Ogdensburg (1885) and History of the Catholic Church in New York, and editor of the Catholic Review (1889-1892). Isaac Hecker founded the Paulists. Daniel Hudson edited The Ave Maria. From the description of Collection, 1762-1972. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat ...

Schneider, Marian Cecilia, d. 2007.

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Sisters of Charity (New York, N.Y.)

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The Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul were established in 1846 in McGowan's Pass at 109th St., New York City. When their land was appropriated for Central Park, they moved to Font Hill, now in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Mother House was named Mount Saint Vincent. From the description of Mother Generals/Presidents collection, 1810-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155481792 Collecting area: Materials relating to the Sisters of Charity and its ministrie...

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Garber, Michael

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New York Foundling Hospital

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Yaffa, Claire

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Claire Yaffa is a freelance photojournalist known for her social realism. Her work encompasses abused or neglected children and the ill, elderly, and homeless. In addition to the New York Foundling Hospital (now known as the "Foundling"), she has photographed for The National Foundation for Children with Learning Disabilities, the Incarnation Children's Hospital, Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, New York School for the Deaf and Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital. This work has been published in ...

Seton, Elizabeth Ann, Saint, 1774-1821

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Rochford, Dominica Maria, d. 1938.

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Cooke, Terence, 1921-1983

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