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Author:
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
Title:
The American experience. The orphan trains / directed by Janet Graham, Edward Gray ; narrated by Stacy Keach.
Publisher:
Distr. by PBS Video,
Copyright Date:
c1995
Description:
1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in., VHS
Subject:
Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.)
Orphan trains.
Abandoned children--United States--History.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Television.
Series.
Other Authors:
PBS.
Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Notes:
Copyright: WGBH Educational Foundation. PUB 27Nov95; PA802-750. Originally produced as an episode of the television series: The American experience./ Participants: Narrator: Stacy Keach. Publisher's standard number: AMEX 904. Closed-captioned.
Summary:
An examination of the results of the Children's Aid Society in New York which from 1853 to 1929 sent over 100,000 unwanted and orphaned children from the city to homes in rural America.
LCCN:
96522504
Locations:
POAX626 -- Jessop-Bruner Library (University Park)

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