A Brief Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present Situation, of the Orphan House in Georgia…

This account of the Bethesda orphan house founded by the evangelical preacher George Whitfield in Savannah, Georgia, in 1740, presents one of the earliest engraved views of an American building. It also includes a second foldout plate with the names of the orphans who lived at the orphanage between 1739 and 1746 and the families to whom they were eventually placed out to learn trades ranging from bricklaying to blacksmithing.