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The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America (edition 1994)

by Marilyn Irvin Holt (Author)

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A study of the system known as "placing out," which was practiced in America between 1853 and 1929, in which children, and in some cases women and entire families, were relocated from crowded urban areas and placed in homes in the west, traveling on orphan trains to their new lives.

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Title:	The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America
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A thorough academic exploration of the so-called orphan trains, including the societal beliefs about childhood. Very well researched and well-sourced. I was glad to see mention of Boston's limited use of the orphan trains, before Charles Loring Brace attempted it in New York a few years later, a fact many accounts overlook.

A great one for research or if you're really interested in the facts of the orphan trains. I prefer to read more first-hand or personalized accounts, so this one was not for me.
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ErinMa | Feb 22, 2019 |

Describes plan and operation of sending women, children and orphans from poverty-stricken city areas to the West to solve the labor shortage there. Program was in operation from the 1850's to the 1920's.

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To thousands of far-off homes these outcast waifs have come as messengers of peace to heal grevious heart-wounds. -- Jacob A Riis, "Chistmas Reminder of the Nobelist Work in the World"

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[Introduction] In 1873 the popular "Harper's New Monthly Magazine captured with sotry and pen-and-ink drawing the migration of children to America's heartand.

She possessed fine, intelligent features, though her face exhibited no light shades.

[Epilogue] The orphan as a literary character had its greatest popularity during the nineteenth century, but it has not entirely faded from American fiction.

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A study of the system known as "placing out," which was practiced in America between 1853 and 1929, in which children, and in some cases women and entire families, were relocated from crowded urban areas and placed in homes in the west, traveling on orphan trains to their new lives.

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