The orphan trains :: placing out in America /

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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1. Verfasser: Holt, Marilyn Irvin, 1949-
Format: Regierungsdokument Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1992.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (248 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index.
ISBN:0585003602
9780585003603

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