Tressler Orphan’s Home, Loysville, Pa, 1923: Singing with the famous Boys Band

Description: Tressler Orphan’s Home, Loysville, Pa, 1923: Singing with the famous Boys Band. Condition is Used. The Tressler Orphans Home wasn’t your ordinary orphanage.Created in 1868, the institution was “to provide a home for poor children ofthe Evangelical Lutheran Church and such other poor children as the Board willfind funds to justify…,” so says its original mission. Originally the home tookcare of children orphaned by the Civil War but it continued its work for almost100 years. By 1890, the home was famous for its Boys Band that touredPennsylvania and surrounding states. By 1923, when this little music book wasprinted, the Boys Band was still going strong. The home’s enrollment was 300that year. The school educated orphans and abandoned children from kindergartento third year in high school. This is a song book from 1923. It’s called “Whileit is Day” and offered such addition songs as “Children’s Day,” “Youth is aSummer Day,” and “A Place for All.” The front cover shows three of the orphansthe year, the original home and an idyllic drawing of the farm. The back covertells the history of the home (through 1923). It’s a small (6 x 9) 16-page booklet, easy for achild to carry about and learn the words. This one has been folded but there’s no writing inside. It’s a great mementoof an important Pennsylvania institution in the lives of too many children.

Price: 9.99 USD

Location: Kent, Ohio

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