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Landscape with the repudiation of Hagar.

Public domain image, 17th-18th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Hearth-stone of the poor--waste steam not wasted / drawn by Sol Eytinge, Jun.

Homeless people heating themselves with steam rising from grating in pavement. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1876 Feb. 12, p. 121.

No welcome for the little stranger / Zimmerman. Joseph Pulitzer

Illustration shows at center Grover Cleveland holding 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, More

Come back to you children and me

Neglected children. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. L.W. Hine

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4793. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the More

Neglected children. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. / L.W. Hine.

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Bitter truth--actual conditions in the Russian starvation area

A group of children, deserted by their parents when they could no longer stand the sorry plight of their young, standing, most of them barefooted, in the Volga district, the center of Russia's starvation area. More

[Abandoned boy holding a stuffed toy animal amid ruins following German aerial bombing of London]

Forms part of: Toni Frissell collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - historical image of England, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[A woman holding a child in the nursery at Junior Village, Washington, D.C.] / [WKL].

Public domain photograph of a nursery, agriculture, garden, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Don't be afraid, boys. - A group of children standing next to each other

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Sewing class in Sprague House Settlement Providence, R.I. The Director is holding a newly-arrived deserted baby. Location: Providence, Rhode Island

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 3174. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs More

Wandering about and "boo-hoo"-ing.

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Sewing class in Sprague House Settlement Providence, R.I. The Director is holding a newly-arrived deserted baby. Location: Providence, Rhode Island

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 3174. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs More

Come back to you children and me

Children brushing their teeth in a children's home, ca 1911 (MOHAI 6159)

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a number of Seattle women started organizations to care for orphans and other children in need. In this photo, taken around 1911, a group of children at the Seattle Children's More

Children eating a meal at Ryther Child Home, ca 1921 (MOHAI 5077)

Ollie H. Ryther became known as Mother Ryther in the 1880s after taking motherless children into her own home. Later, she founded several homes for orphans and children whose parents were unable to take care of More

Colonel William Willoughby Hooper (British - Forsaken - Google Art Project

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h More

GENOD L'Enfant recueilli

Français : Un enfant abandonné est recueilli par des religieuses

Caricature, Left / F. Opper., public domain cartoon image

Illustration shows President-elect James A. Garfield standing on the steps to his home, in the snow, looking at a screaming baby in a basket labeled "Civil Service Reform, Compliments of R.B. Hayes". Rutherford More

Caricature, Left / F. Opper., public domain cartoon image

Illustration shows President-elect James A. Garfield standing on the steps to his home, in the snow, looking at a screaming baby in a basket labeled "Civil Service Reform, Compliments of R.B. Hayes". Rutherford More

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Sewing class in Sprague House Settlement Providence, R.I. The Director is holding a newly-arrived deserted baby. Location: Providence, Rhode Island.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Sewing class in Sprague House Settlement Providence, R.I. The Director is holding a newly-arrived deserted baby. Location: Providence, Rhode Island.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teaching, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.