2-714-907 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Front of the Foundling Hospital', c1876. Founded in 1739 by Thomas Coram, the Foundling Hospital in Bloomsbury, was a children's home for the "education and maintenance of exposed and deserted young children' and a fashionable charity of the time. From "Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. The Western and Northern Studies", by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]