Infant Gallery

Abandoned baby found by police, New York City, 1890s

Policeman bringing in an abandoned infant found in an alley on a winter night, New York City, 1890s.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a 19th-century photograph

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Medieval mother and her newborn infant

Newborn child in a lady's bedroom, with maid-servants assisting, 1400s.
Hand-colored 19th century woodcut reproduction of a manuscript miniature illustration

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Virginia Dare baptised on Roakoke Island, 1585

Baptism of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New World, Roanoke Colony, 1587.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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