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Letter from Madeline Thomas to C. H. Davis

Letter from Madeline Thomas to C. H. Davis

Sister Madeline asks if Rear Admiral Davis would be willing to send two white American children, Ada Manguall and Norman Manguall, back to the United States. She provides the address of their mother and explains that their father left the children as boarders. She feels that at this time the Deaconess Home’s resources are better geared towards helping those Jamaicans on the island who need their help following the earthquake.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-18

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Thomas M. Mulry

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Thomas M. Mulry

President Roosevelt has already invited a number of the men Thomas M. Mulry suggested to invite to the Conference on Dependent Children. Roosevelt has sent out invitations to Mulry’s other suggestions, with the exception of Daniel C. Potter and some members of Jewish charities. Roosevelt says he has invited others who are more connected to children’s work instead.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-07

No welcome for the little stranger

No welcome for the little stranger

At center, Grover Cleveland holds an infant labeled “Civil Service Reform.” They are surrounded by a bunch of angry old men as orphans labeled “Hube Thompson, Eddie Hedden, Davy Hill, Hugh, Joe Blackburn, Charlie Dana, Eustis, Johnnie McLean, Pulitzer, A.P. Gorman, [and] Johnnie K,” and one as an old woman labeled “Hendricks.” On the left is the “Republican Home – No Civil Service Infants Wanted Here” and on the right is the “Democratic Home Restored in 1884.” Caption: Father Cleveland adopts the abandoned infant of the Republican Home, to the great disgust of the Jeffersonian household.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-10-21