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*The location of the Lower Orphan School is shown on the far right hand side, approximately midway, of the [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:4178090?buttons=y 1832 Calcutta Map] by J.B. Tassin, near the Alipore Jail. Published in Calcutta [http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/maps/digitalmaps/ Harvard Digital Maps] (HOLLIS ID 011490109)
*Etching of the Lower Orphan School at Howrah in 1794 from the British Library's [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019pzz000001619u00000000.html Online Gallery]
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.04031/page/n141/mode/1up Image: Military Orphan School at Howrah] between pages 131-132 with some text on [https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.04031/page/n143/mode/1up page 133] ''Bengal Past and Present Volume 52 July-December 1936'' Archive.org. The location from 1785 to 1815.
*Needlework of a very high standard was produced “by the directions of Mistress Parker School Mistress in the Orphan School near Calcutta”, believed to be the Lower Orphan School, circa 1790’s. A sampler by Anne Jennings is shown in [http://books.google.com/books?id=d22WUEmG49IC&pg=PA46-IA2 ''Poor Relations''], page 46.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=d22WUEmG49IC&pg=PA46-IA2 ''Poor relations: the making of a Eurasian community in British India, 1773-1833''], page 46 by Christopher Hawes 1996 Google Books. A copy of Anne Jenning's sampler is also shown in ''Stitched in Adversity: Samplers of the Poor''. Exhibition at Whitney Antiques, Whitney, Oxfordshire, UK 2006. Item 13 Anne Jennings Circa 1795. The sampler contains three long texts. The first is headed Written by the King of Prussia at Breslaw and commences "Love by hope is still sustained zeal". The second consists of the words of the poem [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=KwkOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA74 "To the Affluent"] by M, from the Poetry section of ''Freemasons’ Magazine, or General and Complete Library, Volume 2'', January 1794. The third is the poem [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=aGVJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA107 "Gratitude"] by Joseph Addison,
published on August 9, 1712, in ''The Spectator'', a London newspaper but appearing in this link in a book about English grammar. The sampler ends with the words ”Anne Jennings wrough this sampler by the directions of Mistress Parker School Mistress in the Orphan School near Calcutta in Bengal East Indias”
