Brown Hall (1908)

Children’s Home Society Scholarworks article about Sealed Adoption Records 1895-1988

Children’s Industrial Home Records, 1900-1944 (1890) Women’s Lend a Hand League (orphan, half-orphan, destitute, and ill-treated children) (birth to age 14 years) Collection includes: Register of Admitted and Dismissed Children, 1900-1944; Minutes of the Children’s Industrial Home 1927-1932; the official bylaws of the Woman’s League; and two scrapbooks and a small assortment of slides, 1952-2007.

Good Hope Road’s German Orphanage, Good Hope Road SE., (late 1800s)

Jessie Dyslin Boys’ Ranch, 3501 104th St E, Tacoma, WA 98446, 253-537-3891 Darren McGain (grumpy Dad from the film called, “A Christmas Story”) lived here. (delinquent, half-orphan, ?)

Children’s Industrial Home Girl’s Club

Home for Friendless Children (1887) also known as Spokane Children’s Home, Spokane, (1884) Ladies Benevolent Society of Spokane Falls (abandoned children, orphans, court assigned wayward children) (M/F) (white, colored and Native American)

Home on the Hill (badly damaged in 194 by a furnace explosion)

Seattle Children’s Home History and images, “food) ..must be plain but plentiful, and should be prepared with special reference to the health of the children. Meat to be give only once a day and that at the noon meal … For the morning meal the principal food should be mush, made of any of the cereals, with plenty of milk …. For the evening meal, bread and milk, or bread and syrup, and stewed fruits when possible” (King).

Spokane Children’s Home, Spokane, (1884) Ladies Benevolent Society of Spokane Falls (abandoned children, orphans, court assigned wayward children) Also known as Home for Friendless Children (1887) (M/F) (white, colored and Native American)

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Protestant Orphans’ Home, 1219 Main Street, Baton Rouge

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Bell Haven Orphans’ Home, Luling – Church of Christ (1899) (orphans) (M/F)

Buckner Orphans’ Home, R. 3, Dallas (1879) (needy, orphans)

Children’s Home, 1206 East Eleventh Street, Austin – Helping Hand Society (1902) (children of working women) (M/F)

De Pelchin Faith Home, 1918 Chenevert Street, Houston (1892) (orphans) (M/F)

Fort Worth Benevolent Home, Fort Worth – County of Tarrant (1885) (dependent, indigent) (M/F)  

Galveston Orphans’ Home, Center Street and Avenue M, Galveston (1880) (orphans)

Home for Homeless Children, 1019 Avenue K, – Galveston Society for the Help of Homeless Children (1894) (homeless) (M/F)

Infants’ Home, 1920 Oak Street, Houston (1896) (Illegitimate Infants) (M/F)

Juliette Fowler Christian Home, Grand Prairie – National Benevolent Association of Christian Church (1904) (orphans) (ages 3 to 12) (M/F)

Methodist Orphanage, 901 Herring Avenue, Waco (1894; Methodist Episcopal Church, South (destitute, orphans) (ages 2 to 13) (M/F)

Peniel Orphans’ Home, Peniel (1901) Holiness churches (orphans, abandoned) (M/F)

Presbyterian Home for Orphans, Itasca – Presbyterian Church in the United States (1905) (destitute, orphans) (M/F)

Protestant Home for Destitute Children, Kentucky Avenue, San Antonio (1880) (orphans, destitute, neglected) (M/F)

Rest Cottage, Pilot, TX Founded by Rev. and Mrs. J.P. Roberts- Church of the Nazarene (1903-1975) Home for unmarried mothers and child placement agency. Records, photos, documents

St. John’s Orphanage, West Houston Street, San Antonio – Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word (1890) (orphans) (under age 14) (M)

St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum, Military Plaza, San Antonio (1870; Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word; (orphans) (F)

St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Oak Cliff P.O., Dallas – Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word (1907)  (orphans) (M/F)

St. Mary’s Orphanage, Forty-first Street and Avenue R, Galveston – Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word (1869) (orphans) (over age 2) (M/F)

St. Matthew’s Home for Children, Grand Avenue, Dallas (1900) (orphans) ages 3-8) (M/F)

State Orphans’ Home, Corsicana – State of Texas (1889) (indigent, destitute) (M/F)

Texas State Orphan Asylum 1896 Report

Texas State Orphan Home 1903/4 Report

Texas State Orphan Home 1905/6 Report

Texas State Orphan Home 1907/8 Report

Texas State Orphan Home 1909/10 Report

Texas State Orphan Home 1911/12 Report

Texas State Orphan Home 1913/14 Report

Texas State Orphan Home 1917/18 Report

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