- The
Foundling Hospital (formally the
Hospital for the
Maintenance and
Education of
Exposed and
Deserted Young Children) was a children's home in London...
- A
foundling hospital was
originally an
institution for the
reception of
foundlings, i.e.,
children who had been
abandoned or exposed, and left for the...
- The New York
Foundling,
founded in 1869 by the
Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity, is one of New York City's
oldest and
largest child welfare agencies...
- The
Foundling Museum in
Brunswick Square, London,
tells the
story of the
Foundling Hospital, Britain's
first home for
children at risk of abandonment...
-
Society (established 1853 by
Charles Loring Brace) and later, New York
Foundling Hospital,
endeavored to move
these children. The
institutions were supported...
-
London Foundling Hospital.
Since Thomas Coram had
founded it in 1739,
there had been a
constant debate about what the
station of the
Foundling Hospital's young...
- to the 18th and 19th centuries, when the
device was
known as a
foundling wheel.
Foundling wheels were
abandoned in the late 19th century, but a
modern form...
- 1823 –
August 14, 1896) was an
American nun who
founded the New York
Foundling Hospital in 1869, at a time when
abandoned infants were
routinely sent to almshouses...
- The
Foundling Hospital Anthem (HWV 268), also
known by its
longer title "Blessed are they that
considereth the poor" [sic], is a
choral anthem composed...
-
support Thomas Coram would enlist in his
efforts to
establish the
Foundling Hospital.
Securing the
support of
notably pious women such as Lady Huntingdon...
