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[Children's Home, Randolph, N.Y.] – Historic Reproduction

[Children's Home, Randolph, N.Y.] — historic photograph
[Children's Home, Randolph, N.Y.]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A children's home in Randolph, a village in Cattaraugus County in western New York, is the subject here, and its caption card describes the residents as orphans. The card records no date, so the picture can only be placed by its setting and the period in which such institutions were common. Orphanages and children's homes across the United States, many run by churches, charities, or local boards, housed children whose parents had died, could not support them, or had placed them in care. The image is a useful reminder of how these homes were organized and how they presented themselves to the public.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsWittemann Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Orphans...; New York--R-; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,093 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136570

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