Refuge Photographs
1882-1883
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Total copies: 1
Book containing photographs which have been indexed. Contains photographs of individual admissions to the Refuge Homes. These photos contain the applicants name as well as their bank number. Other photographs that are included in this album show the Seaside Home in Lytham, the Boys Rest Home in Angel Meadow, the School Girls Home on George Street and a picture of the twelve boys who were emigrated to Mr D. L. Moody's Training Homes at Northfield, Massachusetts. These boys were selected from the orphan homes after D. L. Moody's visit to Manchester in 1883 and were sent to the Training Homes, with a view to their being prepared for ministerial or missionary work.
Related Material:See, Stanhope-Brown. James, 'Angels from the Meadow', (Christine Pothecary, Woodford, Northants, 1992) for more details on the twelve boys who emigrated to Mr Moody's Training Homes.
Title:
Refuge Photographs
Date of work:
1882-1883
Reference number:
GB127.M189/9/1/1
Level of description:
Item from Fonds: Manchester and Salford Boys and Girls Refuges (GB127.M189)
Part of:
Use restrictions:
Unrestricted
Record types:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Language:
English
Record number:
7862121