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Description: | A hand-coloured print of the Military Orphan School, Calcutta, from the Fiebig Collection: Views of Calcutta and Surrounding Districts, taken by Frederick Fiebig in 1851. In 1790 a new building, at Kidderpore, south of the Maidan, was found for the orphaned children of Officers of the Bengal Army, and maintained by their brother officers by a system of monthly contributions. Another Military Orphan School, for the children of regular soldiers was at Howrah on the opposite bank of the River Hooghly. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Education Schools Architecture War And Conflict People And Society | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Fiebig, Frederick | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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