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Title:

The orphan trains [videorecording] / produced and directed by Janet Graham and Edward Gray.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

PBS Video ;

Copyright Date:

1995

Description:

1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd, col. ; c 1/2 in.

Subject:

Orphan trains--United States--History.
Orphans
Abandoned children--New York.--New York.
Adoptees.
Adoption--History.
Foster home care
Orhpan trains.

Other Authors:

Graham, Janet.
Gray, Edward.
Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.)
PBS Video.

Summary:

Between 1854 and 1929 the Children's Aid Society in New York and other East Coast charities organized an ambitious rescue effort to send hundreds of thousands of homeless children to foster homes in farming communities. The video explores the successes and failures of this resettlement movement. Interviews with elderly survivors and century-old letters from children are included.

Series:

The American experience ;

OCLC:

(OCoLC)39753504

Locations:

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)