The Georgia Industrial Home (The Old Mumford Home) For Unfortunate Children Just a Few Hints as to what it is. 2 pieces: A brochure of the Home and a typed letter requesting donations.

[Macon]: The Georgia Industrial Home For Unfortunate Children, 1913. Original. Paper. Good. Folding brochure and typed letter. Brochure measures approx. 14" x 6" when unfolded. Printing on all sides of the paper with a few small photographs. The letter is typed, signed? on illustrated letterhead. Letter is folded. Brochure in very good condition.

The letter requests donations to maintain the home. J. A. Harris writes: "Dear Friend. We failed to send out our usual Anniversary letter of appeal having decided to get along without it if possible. But the long summer months staring us in the face with an empty treasury and over a hundred children to care for. We just must have some help to tide us over until fall."

The brochure opens with the message: "Fourteen Years Ago Dr. W. E. Mumford, moved by a strong desire to help the helpless founded the Georgia Industrial Home for unfortunate children. The basic idea of the Home is to rescue boys and girls, not from seeming ills of honest poverty, but from the terrible actual evils of a vicious environment."The Home , founded in 1899 by Rev. W. E. Mumford is currently in operation. (Inventory #: 35131)