Description: Pittsburgh's Orphans and Orphanages, Pennsylvania, Images of America, Paperback In the early 1900s, orphanages in the United States housed more than 100,000 children, thousands of those living in Pittsburgh. Buildings that became group homes were constructed through churches and fraternal organizations. The facilities, complete with boarding accommodations, dining halls, schools, playgrounds, and infirmaries, offered accommodations for 100 to 300 orphans at any given time. For the orphans living in such homes, everything was communal and privacy was nonexistent. Young boys and girls slept in overcrowded dormitories, waited in long lines to use the lavatories, and lost their individuality to the uniform appearance of being an orphan. Some children still had a living parent, but due to dire circumstances of the times, their fate was in the hands of those who operated the orphanage.
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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9781467108034
Book Title: Pittsburgh's Orphans and Orphanages
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6.5in
Author: James Wudarczyk, Joann Cantrell
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / 20th Century, United States / 19th Century
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2022
Genre: History
Item Weight: 0.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
