Name/Title
AnnouncementEntry/Object ID
2017.9.1R11Description
Printed announcement with header "Office of the Colored Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans Committee, 711 Sansom Street" and is dated October 20th, 1869.
It announces "To the Widows of the Colored Soldiers and Sailors of Philadelphia, whose children have not yet entered the State School-Home for Colored Soldiers and Sailors' Orphans:
The Committee, below named, take pleasure in informing you that Mr. and Mrs. James Stitzel, late of the McAlisterville Soldiers' Orphan School, will take charge of this School-Home, as Principal and Matron, on the First of November... The Home is in Bucks County, pleasantly situated on the Delaware, sixteen miles from Philadelphia, two miles and a half from Bristol and one mile from Schenck's Station, on the Philada. and Trenton Railroad, and is the place formerly known as 'Bristol College.' Listed at the end of the announcement are Louis Wagner, late commander of Camp William Penn; Robert R. Corson, Secretary; and Benjamin P. Hunt, Treasurer.
It then lists the Executive Committee, as listed in other documents within the collection of Colored Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphan's Home materials.
Following this is an extensive list of orphans admitted to the "school-home," and two additional lists- one of applicants not yet admitted to the school and a second, of orphans who have not yet "applied" for admission.
Printed on single sheet of 16.5 x 11" paper, folded in half.Collection
Pamphlet Box Collection