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Waifs, foundlings and half-orphans, searching for America's orphan train riders, Mary Ellen Johnson

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Waifs, foundlings and half-orphans, searching for America's orphan train riders, Mary Ellen Johnson

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Waifs, foundlings and half-orphans

Oclc number

65196410

Responsibility statement

Mary Ellen Johnson

Sub title

searching for America's orphan train riders

Table Of Contents

Orphan train riders : Peg's story ; Algie's story ; Orphan Train Riders Research Center -- Mass immigration: a major impact : Changing life in New York City ; The effects on children ; Parental responsibility ; Our cities charities, no. iv ; Free-home-placing-out ; A story of events of an era -- Orphanages and institutions : Newsboys lodging house -- Sending children to the country ; Children's Aid Society ; Brace Farm School ; New York Founding Asylum; The work of the Sisters of Charity ; History of he New York Founding Hospital ; New York Juvenile Asylum ; American Female Guardian Society ; Extracts from the first report of the First Home Industrial School ; Chicago Orphan Asylum ; New England Home for Little Wanderers ; Home for Destitute Catholic Children ; Jewish orphanages ;Traveler's Aid Society ; Salvation Army ; Name change records in New York --Research and resources : Is there an orphan train rider in my family? ; Where did the orphans go ; The first orphan train riders ; Loading places for the children ; Where to look next ; Orphan Train Heritage Society of America -- References and reading list : References and reading list ; Researching an orphan train rider

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