Scenes in an Infant Orphan Asylum (1904)

The subject of this documentary is an orphan asylum for infants The beginning portion includes the dining facilities for the children A woman dresses as a nurse leads approximately two hundred small children into the eating area where they stand behind their chairs At a given signal each child sits down and begins eating The remainder of the film is devoted to showing some of the infants less than a year old being pushed in baby carriages and bathed and later having haircuts All of the children wear similar attire and the nurses wear uniforms New York City