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First Annual Report of The Governors of the Alms House, New-York, For the Year 1849. New-York: George F. Nesbitt, Stationer and Printer, Corner of Wall and Water Streets, 1850, Robert Kelly, Esq. Provenance (custom gilt lettering of name on front board), 199 pp, 9 x 6", 8vo. In fair condition. Cloth boards are scuffed at edges & worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine lacking - binding exposed. Front board almost detached from binding - fragile. Both front and rear hinges are split - binding exposed. Gilt lettering on front board is slightly dulled, but overall presents well. Robert Kelly's signature is also found on front paste-down. Front gutter split at title page - cording exposed. Light toning throughout text-block, with some instances of finger-soiling. Fold-out charts clean and intact. All plates are intact along with their tissue guards. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. An extensive list of New York's almshouses, which include: Bellevue Hospital, Blackwell's Island Hospital, City Prison, the Colored Home, the Colored Orphan Asylum, the Lunatic Asylum, Randall's Island, Small Pox Hospital, & work houses. The tables included display tables concerning: Disposal of Funds, Division of Expenditures, Division of Payments of Superintendent Out-Door Poor and Division of Payments of Superintendent of Work House, Sources of Receipts, & Statement of Distribution of Supplies. There are plates illustrating the various almshouses, including the Colored Orphan Asylum. The asylum was open in New York City from 1836 to 1946 and housed, on average, four hundred children annually. It was founded by three Quaker women: Anna and Hanna Shotwell and Mary Lindley Murray. Prior to the asylums founding, black children who were orphaned were housed in jails or worked as beggars or chimney sweeps as orphanages housing white children would not take them in. Robert Kelly, Esq. (previous provenance), who served as New York's City Chamberlain in the mid nineteenth-century, was one of the founders of the Free Academy, which eventually became the College of the City of New York. Kelly's home at No. 9 West 16th Street (completed in 1840) in New York still stands today, and is able to be rented. When Kelly was planning his home, he consulted with 38-year old Richard Upjohn on its interiors. Upjohn would be credited with launching the popular Gothic Revival style in the United States. White Kelly's mansion outwardly reflected Greek Revival, Upjohn would introduce Gothic inside. Following Robert Kelly's death, his widow staying on in the house with daughter Florence. In 1863, Florence married attorney William Packer Prentice - the newly-weds stayed on in the house with Mrs. Kelly. When New York Times reported on the Prentice family's sale of the house on June 12, 1928, it mentioned, "This property has been in the Prentice family for more than eighty-five years." Incredibly rich New York history. N° de ref. del artículo RAREA1850ALOX
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