Orphanages, Asylums, and Almshouses
Explore the history and development of social welfare in Rhode Island. From the early nineteenth century until the present, numerous institutions throughout th…
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"Let us Build a Home for such Children"location_fillWillie Owens, a sturdy boy of 12 years, in cap, reefer and gray knickerbockers, stood in the Providence and Wo…
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"Her Mother's Triumph"location_fillIn 1876, a well-dressed young lady in her early twenties joined Alexander Graham Bell on the stage of the old … -
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"A Hospital Where Kids Had Fun"location_fillIt was September 21, 1938. Strong winds ripped across the landscape of Starvegoat Island, tearing up bushes, d… -
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"Positively Irrepressible!"location_fillIn 1861, five young ladies, attendees of a prominent Providence academy for girls, met together for an afterno… -
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"Rosy Cheeks and Cheery Voices"location_fillIn the early 1900s, Rhode Island was in the grip of a deadly epidemic – the great white plague. Each year, tho… -
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"A Farm Suitable for Keeping the Poor"location_fillIn June 1830, the residents of Tiverton gathered for the annual town meeting, an opportunity for the freemen o… -
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"Watchman, what of the night?"location_fillBy the early 1900s, race relations in the United Sates had grown increasingly tumultuous. Despite the abolishm… -
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"From Broken or Badly Bent Homes"location_fillWithin the granite and brownstone walls of Providence’s imposing Gothic courthouse, Manuel shifts nervously fr… -
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"Not Wanted by His Father and Mother"location_fillIn nineteenth-century America, there were few laws and regulations regarding child welfare. Destitute parents … -
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"To Rescue from Evil and Misery Those Deprived of their Natural Protectors"location_fillFor sixty-one years, an imposing, three-story building on Tobey Street operated by the Providence Children's F…
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