Albumen carte de visite photograph showing six children posed in a studio setting, several dressed in matching sailor-style outfits. The mount bears a printed fundraising text on the reverse identifying the subjects as inmates of the Orphans’ Home located at Mt. Vernon, Ohio. The photograph dates to the late 1860s or 1870s based on format and mount style.

The printed broadside on the reverse titled True Sympathy explains that the photographs were sold to raise money for the support of the children and notes that donations of twenty-five cents or more entitled the donor to keep the picture. The text emphasizes charitable support and cites Proverbs 19:17, identifying G. W. McWherter as superintendent of the institution.

The card is uncredited to a photographer. The extensive printed text on the reverse forms an integral part of the object and provides direct documentation of nineteenth-century charitable fundraising through photographic sales.