Institutions for the housing and care of orphans, foundlings, and abandoned children. They have existed as such since the medieval period but the heading is applicable to such usage also in modern parlance.
    

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The London Orphan Asylum, Clapton. Engraving, 1838, after T. H. Shepherd.

Two children are brought to the nurses of the Asylum for Female Orphans, Lambeth, London. Etching.

English families taken as hostages in the French Revolution, imprisoned in the orphanage of Arras. Engraving by P. Maxell, 1802, after T. Snagg.

Girard College, Philadelphia. Lithograph by J.C. Wild, 1838, after T.U. Walter.

Limerick Protestant Orphan Hall, Limerick, Ireland. Wood engraving after W. Fogerty, 1856.

A Victorian charity : the Infant Orphan Asylum at Wanstead / [Donald Grist ; research by R.V. Hatt] ; with an introduction by Mary Stocks.

Anthropological investigations on one thousand white and colored children of both sexes, the inmates of the New York Juvenile Asylum : with additional notes on one hundred colored children of the New York Colored Orphan Asylum / by Ales Hrdlicka.

The lost children : a study of charity children in Ireland, 1700-1900 / Joseph Robins.

Untersuchung der Kost in einigen öffentlichen Anstalten : für Aerzte und Verwaltungsbeamte / in Verbindung mit J. Forster, Fr. Renk und Ad. Schuster ; zusammengestellt von Carl Voit.

Rules and constitutions of the Maiden Hospital, founded by the crafts-men of Edinburgh and Mary Erskin.

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A Victorian charity : the Infant Orphan Asylum at Wanstead / [Donald Grist ; research by R.V. Hatt] ; with an introduction by Mary Stocks.

Anthropological investigations on one thousand white and colored children of both sexes, the inmates of the New York Juvenile Asylum : with additional notes on one hundred colored children of the New York Colored Orphan Asylum / by Ales Hrdlicka.

The lost children : a study of charity children in Ireland, 1700-1900 / Joseph Robins.

Untersuchung der Kost in einigen öffentlichen Anstalten : für Aerzte und Verwaltungsbeamte / in Verbindung mit J. Forster, Fr. Renk und Ad. Schuster ; zusammengestellt von Carl Voit.

Rules and constitutions of the Maiden Hospital, founded by the crafts-men of Edinburgh and Mary Erskin.