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====Upper Orphan School====
*Maureen Evers, "Four Orphan Schools in Calcutta and the Lawrence Military Asylum Sanawar, Part 1: History," ''FIBIS Journal'' No 22 (Autumn 2009), pages 1-14. "Part II: parents, conditions, prospects" ''FIBIS Journal'' No 23 (Spring 2010), pages 5-14. For details of how to access these articles, see [[FIBIS Journals]].
*The location of the Upper Orphan School is shown on the far right hand side of the [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:4178090?buttons=y 1832 Calcutta Map] by J.B. Tassin. Published in Calcutta [http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/maps/digitalmaps/ Harvard Digital Maps] (HOLLIS ID 011490109)
*Etching of Kidderpore House in 1794 from the British Library's [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019pzz000000738u00000000.html Online Gallery]
*Photographic print of Kidderpore House in 1851 from the British Library's [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/m/019pho0000247s2u00034000.html Online Gallery]
====Lower Orphan School====
*Maureen Evers, "Four Orphan Schools in Calcutta and the Lawrence Military Asylum Sanawar, Part 1: History," ''FIBIS Journal'' No 22 (Autumn 2009), pages 1-14. "Part II: parents, conditions, prospects" ''FIBIS Journal'' No 23 (Spring 2010), pages 5-14. For details of how to access these articles, see [[FIBIS Journals]].
*The location of the Lower Orphan School is shown on the far right hand side of the [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:4178090?buttons=y 1832 Calcutta Map] by J.B. Tassin. 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]
*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,
