Orphanages
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Robert Bogdan Disability Collection
The collection contains real photo postcards, commercial postcards, photographs, pamphlets and ephemera related to people with disabilities, mostly from the United States, collected by Professor Robert Bogdan, a pioneer in the teaching of disability studies.
Letter to Eva Whyte, circa 1880-1900 January 26
Says that she heard that the "orphanage enlarged the children collected £35 for it and we all gave something altogether over £200."
Letter to Eva Whyte, circa 1880-1900 December 18
Addressed from Dublin by "Annie," at a children's orphanage. Annie says that her sister had met Eva on the steamer going to Holyhead and had passed on Eva's collection of money for the children. Tells Eva that there are 63 girls and 45 boys at the home. Had enclosed a photograph of a little girl in the home named Maggie Powell.
Whyte Family Correspondence
The collection comprises correspondence sent to Eva, Lizzie Hester, and Sylvie Whyte by family and friends in the 1880s and 1890s, and provides insight into the lives of adolescent girls growing up in Victorian England in the fashionable Midlands town of Malvern, and their travels abroad.