[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Home for Destitute Colored Children indenture document. Maylandville, Philadelphia, 2 October 1868.
Sale 1118 - African Americana
Feb 28, 2023
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
Estimate
$400 -
$600
Sold for $882
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Home for Destitute Colored Children indenture document. Maylandville, Philadelphia, 2 October 1868.
1 page, folio, visible 10 x 14 1/2 in., matted and framed, not examined out of frame, creasing.
The Home for Destitute Colored Children was founded circa 1856 and was publishing annual reports as late as 1881. The indenture here is for a young girl named Fanny Thomas to be in the care of the Home and W. Jarret Hollowell of Abington, Montgomery County, PA, noting that she will be taught "the art and mystery of housekeeping. A modern plaque indicates that Fanny's mother was " the Poor House at Montgomery County Disgraced Husey."
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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