orphans' asylum

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orphans' asylum - a public institution for the care of orphans

institution - an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated

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These include the New York Tribune (as Baker notes, reporters fled to the roof seeking safety) and, more ominously, social institutions run by reform-minded elites--such as the Colored Orphans' Asylum.

A member of New York's African-American community is Billy Dove, who works alongside Yankee women at the Orphans' Asylum. He and his wife, Ruth, an Irish immigrant, live in Paradise Alley with their five children.

When New York City Burned : Historical novelist Kevin Baker explores one of the most important but least recognized events in U.S. history: the New York City draft riots of 1863

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