1940 census district description for St. Francis Orphan Asylum. The federal census assigned a district to St. Francis Orphan Asylum in New Haven's Ward 18. This Catholic institution was separate from the New Haven Orphan Asylum founded in 1833.
Evidence, credit & reuse: NAID5841707; do not merge the two orphanages or treat a district description as a resident list. A different institution from New Haven Orphan Asylum; use only explicit comparative/source-context presentation, never as that institution's census record. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: Public domain official U.S. Census Bureau work, explicit Commons tag.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau / National Archives and Records Administration, via Wikimedia Commons
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Silent Grounds Collective, New Haven Orphan Asylum / Children’s Center of Hamden, SGC-NH-006, ED-H2-HT-SP-034, “St. Francis Orphan Asylum census district — separate institution.” Source: U.S. Census Bureau / National Archives and Records Administration, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1940_Census_Enumeration_District_Descriptions_-_Connecticut_-_New_Haven_County_-_ED_11-114_-_NARA_-_5841707.jpg. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-12.