African American couple leaving infant at orphanage
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812534
Item data
Title
African American couple leaving infant at orphanage
Collection
Wallach Division Picture Collection
African-American Illustrations
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1889-10-19
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC AFRA-Ill
Subjects
Poor persons -- United States
Mothers & children -- United States
African Americans
Infants
Orphanages
Spouses
Genres
Notes
Content: Printed on border: "Mrs. Ruffins--'Me an' my husban's too pore t' tek care ob de chile, so we's 'bleeged t' fetch it heah.' Superintendent--'All right; I'll keep it dark.' "
Source Note: Judge. (New York : The Judge Publishing Co., 1881-1947).
Physical Description
Line photoengravings
Extent: 15 x 11 cm (5 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.)
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17180934
Barcode: 33333159329933
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): dcfe5580-c52e-012f-3dd0-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1889-10-19
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MLA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "African American couple leaving infant at orphanage" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1889. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/dcfe5580-c52e-012f-3dd0-58d385a7bc34
APA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1889). African American couple leaving infant at orphanage Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/dcfe5580-c52e-012f-3dd0-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "African American couple leaving infant at orphanage" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 16, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/dcfe5580-c52e-012f-3dd0-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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