St. Francis Orphan Asylum in New Haven, photographed in a snowy streetscape and reproduced in a 1918 city history. This Highland Street institution was distinct from the New Haven Orphan Asylum founded in 1833.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Public domain in the United States: photograph published in 1918. Archival scan contributed by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Cropped lower photograph from original plate, retaining its original printed caption; resized to maximum 1400 pixels wide and JPEG converted.
Source: Photographer not credited on plate; Everett Gleason Hill (author), A Modern History of New Haven and Eastern New Haven County, vol. 1; S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., New York and Chicago; Unnumbered plate between printed pages 146 and 147; IA leaf 215; lower photograph. Full plate preserved locally as st_francis_asylum_hill1918_leaf215.jpg.
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Silent Grounds Collective, New Haven Orphan Asylum / Children’s Center of Hamden, SGC-NH-006, NH-005, “St. Francis Orphan Asylum — separate institution.” Source: Photographer not credited on plate; Everett Gleason Hill (author), A Modern History of New Haven and Eastern New Haven County, vol. 1; S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., New York and Chicago; Unnumbered plate between printed pages 146 and 147; IA leaf 215; lower photograph. Full plate preserved locally as st_francis_asylum_hill1918_leaf215.jpg.. https://archive.org/details/modernhistoryofn01hill/page/n215/mode/1up. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.