The Catholic Orphanage at Nazareth once stood on hundreds of acres southwest of Raleigh, ... whose father, Roger Dunbar, moved into the orphanage at the end of the Great Depression, when he was 5.

One subject, 74-year-old Mary Korlaske, had been swept into the orphanage by the Great Depression's devastating effect on family finances and had cooperated as a 12-year-old with Tudor, hoping the ...

The film tells the story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the great depression, went from playing without shoes - or even a football - to playing for a ...

Though it has to be said the orphanage also provided them with an education, food, freedom to play and a relatively stable environment – the population peaked during the Great Depression at over ...

Imagine baking birthday cakes, sewing costumes and helping solve math problems for hundreds of kids. The matron of a long-ago Fairview orphanage did just that for 25 years, until her death in 1949.

At one time the orphanage was surrounded by a 270-acre farm with chickens, pigs, ... Its peak population of 703 children came in 1933 during the Great Depression.