New York City charitable institutions – NewYorkScapes https://newyorkscapes.org NewYorkScapes is a research community dedicated to exploring the literary, historical, and social aspects of the city of New York using digital forms of scholarship. Fri, 25 May 2018 14:55:26 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Documenting New York City’s House of the Good Shepherd https://newyorkscapes.org/project/house-of-the-good-shepherd/ Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:09:14 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=project&p=573 This project recovers the history of New York City’s House of the Good Shepherd, the largest Magdalen asylum operating in Manhattan during the 19th century. Managed by the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, this hybrid institution consisted of a convent, industrial school, and reformatory for “fallen women” and “delinquent girls.” Beginning in 1867, the House of the Good…

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