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Photograph of Howard Orphanage and Industrial School ca. 1915

The Howard Colored Orphan Asylum was one of the few orphanages to be led by and for African Americans.[1] It was located on Troy Avenue and Dean Street in Weeksville, a historically black settlement in what is now Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City.[2] The asylum gradually deteriorated due to lack of funding, and closed in 1918 after an incident involving burst water pipes, which resulted in two students contracting frostbite and having their feet amputated.

  1. ^ "archives.nypl.org -- Howard Orphanage and Industrial School records". archives.nypl.org. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  2. ^ "LITTLE COLORED ORPHANS; THEIR PLEASANT BROOKLYN ASYLUM AND HOW THEY LIVE". NY Times. July 22, 1894. Retrieved October 30, 2019.

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