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The orphan trains / by Alice K. Flanagan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: We the people (Series) (Compass Point Books)Publication details: Minneapolis, MN : Compass Point Books, c2006.Description: 48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0756516358
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.7/340973 22
LOC classification:
  • HV875 .F56 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
An orphan's story -- Poor working-class families -- New York's homeless children -- How the orphan trains began -- Who rode the orphan trains? -- How orphans found homes -- The baby trains -- The end of the orphan trains.
Summary: A history of the system which found homes for 200,000 orphans in New York and other states, especially in the West, from 1854 to 1930.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 46) and index.

An orphan's story -- Poor working-class families -- New York's homeless children -- How the orphan trains began -- Who rode the orphan trains? -- How orphans found homes -- The baby trains -- The end of the orphan trains.

A history of the system which found homes for 200,000 orphans in New York and other states, especially in the West, from 1854 to 1930.

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