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The orphan trains : placing out in America / Marilyn Irvin Holt.

Holt, Marilyn Irvin, 1949- (Author).

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"From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,00 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 and demise. She captures the children's perspective with the judicious use of oral histories, institutional records, and newspaper accounts. This well-written volume sheds new light on the multifaceted experience of children's immigration, changing concepts of welfare, and Western expansion. It is good, scholarly social history."--Library Journal.

Record details

ISBN: 0803272650
ISBN: 9780803272651
Physical Description: 248 pages : illustrations, [14] pages of plates ; 22 cm
Publisher: Lincoln ; University of Nebraska Press, 1994, ©1992.

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Formatted Contents Note:: Ch. 1. Ideals, Demands, and Motivations -- Ch. 2. A Plan for "Little Wanderers" -- Ch. 3. Others "Think of a Home Over There" -- Ch. 4. A Plan Embattled -- Ch. 5. The Close of an Era.

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