Date: | 1958 |
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Description: | A Korean toddler is facing the camera with teary eyes. She is being held by a woman who is nuzzling her face to the child's and has her eyes closed. This p... |
Date: | 09 04 1967 |
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Description: | A family posing together indoors; the father is bouncing a young girl standing on his knees. Caption reads: "Mrs. Alan S. Smith and her two sons watched as... |
Date: | 1850 |
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Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of Lydia Remsen Draper sitting in a chair, (Mrs. Lyman C. Draper, Dr. Draper's first wife) and adopted daughter Helen, (died 1864... |
Date: | 04 30 1909 |
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Description: | Newspaper clipping of a man holding a small child in his arms who arrived on the orphan train for adoption. The caption is: "He Wins A Prize." |
Date: | 04 30 1909 |
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Description: | Newspaper clipping titled: "The Little Darling" shows a couple holding an orphan train child as two other women look on. |
Date: | 04 30 1909 |
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Description: | Newspaper clipping of prospective parents looking up at children in the windows of the orphan train. The caption reads: "The Arrival of the Babies." |
Date: | 10 15 1957 |
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Description: | Mrs. Elizabeth Siska, district supervisor with Children's Service Society, and Miss Ann Clark, a case worker, are shown with a ten-week-old baby boy to be ... |
Date: | 1957 |
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Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and daughter Tierney. Her adoption was not completed at the time of the Senator's death on May 2, 1957. |
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Description: | Application to admit a child to the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, at Madison, Wisconsin, who had lost their father in the Civil War. |
Date: | 03 21 1950 |
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Description: | Children in Foster Care. Henry and Ella Ellestad with "Sister," a 4 month old baby, their seventh foster child. |
Date: | 05 05 1954 |
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Description: | Mrs. Jack Schwartz of Roxbury holding a 3-month-old baby girl on her lap. The child is one of the nearly 60 foster children that Mrs. Schwartz has cared fo... |
Date: | 10 16 1950 |
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Description: | L.E. Rolefson, director of the Lutheran Welfare Society, seated, shows the Reverend E.J. Van Handel, director of the Catholic Welfare Bureau, and two Unite... |
Date: | 08 12 1944 |
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Description: | Mrs. Albert (Nima) Quentmeyer took in two young girls from a broken home after raising six sons, who have since grown up. Some of her sons are serving in t... |
Date: | 08 01 1953 |
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Description: | Michigan State Professor and Mrs. Charles Loomis with their three adopted Costa Rican daughters, Elizabeth Loomis, Vera Loomis and Laura Loomis. |
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Description: | Studio portrait of Zintka Lanuni ("Lost Bird") Colby, a Lakota, as a young child wearing traditional Indian clothing of a fringed shirt, and pants. She is ... |
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Description: | Studio portrait of Zintka Lanuni ("Lost Bird") Colby, a Lakota, who as an infant survived the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1891. |
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Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Edmonia Lewis (1845-1890), African American Sculptor. Lewis, the first famous American sculptor of African descent, had a Chipp... |
Date: | 10 1961 |
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Description: | Catholic Welfare Bureau is one of 29 United Givers agencies. This agency handles foster care and adoptions and provides counseling to unwed mothers and fam... |
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Description: | A young Chinese girl is standing in front of the open door of an airplane and holding several bags. A woman is leaning down and appears to be talking to he... |
Date: | 10 10 1961 |
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Description: | Dean and Betty Colden with their two adopted children; David, age three years and one year old Sally. The couple adopted their children through the Childre... |
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