Adoption Collection

North American P-51D Mustang -the adoption of the Rolls-Royce Merlin transformed the P-51 into the best US fighter of World War 2

Comic Postcard - Adoption
A comic postcard depicting two women stand outside a childrens home and adoption society. Date: Date unknown

CHILDRENS HOME / SPAIN
Children say their prayers before bed at this childrens home in Spain Date: 1930s

Orphans canvassing 1840s
Orphans wearing their best attire, being shown to potential parents. Date: 1840s

Jenny Dolly with her adopted daughters
Jenny Dolly with her two adopted daughters (Manzi and Klari) shortly before her suicide, Los Angeles, 1941 1941

A Belgian refugee adopted by a British woman
Choosing a new foster-sister: Mlle. Belgica becomes Miss Britannia. Impression of an actual event representing the visit of a young English woman to a Belgian refugee home in Ealing in 1914 to adopt

Freemasons adoption festival
The Freemasons Fete d Adoption of the French Lodge Belle et Bonne, at the Hotel de Villette, France. Date: 1819

The Seven Good Deeds of Bonzo (Sunday) -- he adopts Chee-Kees pup (but not for long). Date: 1923

Female Initiation - 5
A candidate is initiated into the Sublime Scottish Rite, vowing on her scimitar to honour the Modern Rite of Adoption. Date: 1891

Adoption Society Bath
A National Adoption Society little girls helps a nurse to give her younger brother a bath. Date: 1930s

Putting Shoes On
A National Adoption Society little girl, sitting on a blanket as she learns how to put on her own shoes. Date: early 1930s

Baby Drinking Milk
An Adoption Society baby drinking milk in a high chair in the open air, England. Date: early 1930s

A selection of toddlers available for adoption. Date: 1908

Namibia - Adaptation to Western Costume
A very interesting card produced by the German Catholic Mission to Namibia, showing the before and after result of the adoption of a western style of clothing to the native populace

Abandoning Child, Paris
A working-class couple, unable to support their child, leave it at the Hospice des Enfants- Trouves (Hospice of found infants), Paris

Adoption Society Meal
Mealtime for a group of National Adoption Society children

Adoption Society Boy
A nurse at the National Adoption Society playing with a little boy in a bobble hat with his toy elephant on wheels

Adoption Society Babies
Two National Adoption Society babies being held by a nurse. Another woman, possibly a prospective adoptive mother, holds one of the babys hands

Children Clean Teeth
Children at the National Adoption Societys home in Harlesden brush their teeth standing at a wooden table using bowls

Baby Abandoned / 1860
A mother abandoning her child at a convent baby wheel

BABY ABANDONED IN TOUR
The " tour" in which parents could place infants they wished to abandon. When the bell was pulled the sisters would revolve the tour 180 degrees and collect the baby

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