[PDF.40da] The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America (Bison Book)

The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America (Bison Book)

[PDF.yi94] The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America (Bison Book)

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 | #272508 in Books |  1994-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.58 x5.51l,.69 | File type: PDF | 264 pages

 | Paperback with photo of a train and children

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A great start on an important story|By Barbara D'Amico|This is a well researched, clearly written effort to understand a major event in US history that is little understood. My grandfather and his brother were on an orphan train that left NYC and went to the Northernmost area of NY around the turn of the century. There my grandfather, the youngest and smallest of the children|From Publishers Weekly|A history of the emigration policies instituted between 1850 and 1930 to resettle the urban poor from the East Coast to the West. |Copyright 1994 Cahners Business Information, Inc.|From Library Journal|

"From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This 'placing out,' an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known by the 'orphan trains' that carried the children. Holt carefully analyzes the system, initially instituted by the New York Children's Aid Society in 1853, tracking its imitators as well as the reasons for its creation an...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America (Bison Book)   |  Marilyn Irvin Holt. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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