Stitched paper wrappers
1879 · Mount Vernon
by [Wartburg Orphans' Farm School]
Mount Vernon: Printing office of the Wartburg Orphans' Farm School, 1879. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Overall very good copies with some chips to wrappers. Tenth report has tear along spine.. 8vo. Tenth Report includes a "Compliments of G.C. Holls" card, as well as a typed letter, laid in loose. Thirteenth Report contains a typed letter laid in loose from the same. Holls was the Director of the Institution and on the Board of Managers. Reports cover from May 1, 1875 to May 1 of each of the following years through 1879. The Wartburg Orphans' Farm School was founded in 1866, serving children who had lost parents during the Civil War. Over time, the facility shifted to serving the elderly, and is currently known as the Wartburg Adult Care Community. OCLC shows four locations: Huntington, Trinity, Yale, NYHS. (Inventory #: 38680)