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

By Judith A. Dulberger and Mother Donit fore the Best Judith A. Dulberger

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081560341X
• ISBN13: 9780815603412
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"