Terre Haute Postcards - Rose Orphan Home (2)
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Rose Orphan Home
This unused postcard has the printed text...
A-106
The Model trademark logo
Rose Orphan Home
This poor condition postcard has the printed text...
6856
UNCO trademark logo
I have another copy of this postcard, in equally bad condition, that was posted in Terre Haute on January 30th, 1914. This card does not have the UNCO tademark logo.
Rose Orphan Home
This postcard, posted in Terre Haute on August 15th, 1916, has the printed text...
6856
Levin Bros.
Acmegraph Co., Chicago trademark logo
Rose Orphan Home
This unused postcard has the printed text...
Published by A. Herz, Terre Haute, Ind.
Rose Orphan Home
This postcard, posted in Terre Haute on March 21st, 1910, has no other printed text.
Rose Orphan Home
This unused postcard has the printed text...
No. D3941
Published by the Indiana News Company, Indianapolis, Ind.
Dresden - Leipzig - Berlin
Made in Germany
Leipzig - Berlin - Dresden
ANC NY Litho-Chrome Trade Mark
Rose Orphan Home
This unused postcard has the printed text...
No. C1801
Publ. by The Amer. News Co.
Leipzig - Berlin - Dresden
Printed in Germany
Leipzig - Berlin - Dresden
ANC NY Litho-Chrome Trade Mark
Germany
Rose Orphan Home
This unused postcard has the printed text...
Chauncey Rose Home
2500 Wabash Avenue
Terre Haute, Indiana
72395
Color Photo by Martin
Pub. by Martin's Photo Shop, Terre Haute, Ind.
Genuine Natural Color Made by Dexter Press, Inc., West Nyack, N. Y.
Rose Orphan Home
This unused postcard has the printed text...
Published by Bundy, Terre Haute, Ind.
Made in Germany
This institution was funded by a bequest from Chauncey Rose. it was designed by Samuel Hannaford and opened in 1884 on the corner of Twenty-Fifth Street and Wabash Avenue. Later known as Chauncey Rose School the building was used from 1950 as a home for the aged. It was sold in 1965 and demolished the next year and replaced by a K-Mart food store.
This institution was conceptualized in 1873 when the Vigo County Orphan Home Board was formed, backed by Mr. Rose. When he died in 1877, before the home was actually built, the name was changed to honor him. The Rose Orphan's Home was called "one of the top 10 children's institutions in the U.S." in 1910, and was identified as "the nation's finest" in 1929. It housed up to 150 children. When the Rose Home ceased operation in 1949, its residents were transferred to the Glenn Home. The Glenn Home, which was located in the Lost Creek Township town of East Glenn, was also known as the Vigo County Home for Dependent Children. It operated from 1903 to 1979.
Fro more information on Terre Haute's orphanages see "Genealogy: Orphanages play important role in history" by Tamie Dehler and Terre Haute Indiana Children's Homes.
This page created 14th September 2008, last modified 18th November 2009
