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The Italian Home for Children (MA) (Images of America)

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As it ravaged the world, the influenza epidemic of 1918 devastated Boston’s congested North End and left hundreds of orphans in its wake. Touched by this crisis, a Roman Catholic priest and a group of Italian Americans founded the first home for Italian children in Massachusetts. Franciscan Sisters devoted 24 hours a day to providing the children with a secure, loving, and non secular environment. As well as, the home provided educational reinforce for its residents. Over the years, the changing needs of children mandated that the agency change the nature of its products and services from custodial care to remedy. In 1974, in response to the changing political and social climate, the agency became the Italian Home for Children. Today, this is a nonprofit, nonsectarian residential remedy facility with a capacity for 61 children of all races, nationalities, and religions. The images in The Italian Home for Children document milestones in the organization’s history: the devastating influenza epidemic, the Missionary Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, Christmas plays, a talk over with from Joe DiMaggio, trips to Canobie Lake Park in the summertime, the Tony Martin benefit performance at Boston Garden, and the home as it is today―a refuge for children in the most severe crises.

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