Item details: The orphan trains - 48053943

The orphan trains

moving image The orphan trains

Summary: Examines the efforts of the Children's Aid Society in New York, organized by minister Charles Loring Brace, which from 1853 to 1929 sent over 100,000 unwanted and orphaned children from the city to homes in rural America.

Contents: Orphans in New York -- An ambitious plan -- Journey to a new life -- The kindness of strangers -- The drifters -- Bad blood -- Success stories -- Mothers and fathers -- The end of orphan trains.

Format: moving image

Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Publisher: PBS Home Video 2006

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Peninsula Community Library	DVD ORP in Digital Video Disc	Available

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videorecording Documentary television programs. Historical television programs. Nonfiction television programs. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Television programs-United States. History.

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McCullough, David G. Keach, Stacy. Graham, Janet (Producer) Gray, Edward. Waletzky, Josh Levis, Ken Bacon, Michael Edward Gray Films WGBH Educational Foundation Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.) PBS Home Video Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.) Brace, Charles Loring Brace, Charles Loring Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.)

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