Article: Time trip.(orphan trains and the Great Depression, 1929-1934)

Article: 'Placing Out' tells compelling story of orphan ...
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  April 10, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... New York, the children were boarded on orphan trains and distributed across the United States, largely to farm families who were willing ... When David Akemann first heard about the orphan trains a few years ago from his wife, Vickie ...

Article: Survivors Mark Orphan Trains
AP Online;  April 29, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... 04-29-2000 Survivors Mark Orphan Trains LAKEWOOD, Colo. (AP ... shipped out of New York on ``Orphan Trains'' from the 1850s to 1929 ... number of slaves brought into the United States. ``We don't hear about these ...

Article: Artist recalls the rough rumbling of the orphan ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  February 2, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... recalls the rough rumbling of the orphan trains Ken Stark had not yet finished ... Heritage Society of America. The orphan trains were an ingenious solution to ... million people had emigrated to the United States. Almost all of them came through ...

Article: The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America.
The Historian;  June 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... aroused a sense of crisis. The United States is a nation obsessed with its ... a more important issue in the United States than it is today. Thus the history ... ranging research of the author, Orphan Trains breaks little new ground and ...

Article: Survivors of 'orphan trains' share bittersweet ...
Charleston Gazette;  April 30, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... as 350,000 orphan children shipped out of New York on "Orphan Trains" from the 1850s to 1929. The trains stopped in rural areas ... is about the same as the number of slaves brought into the United States. "We don't hear about these people because they were ...

Article: Orphan Trains
Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society;      700+ words ...Orphan Trains The term orphan trains refers to the mid-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century ... with its "Emigration Plan," which later became known as the orphan trains. The trains challenged the conventional practice of institutionalizing ...

Article: ORPHAN TRAINS MOTIVATED BY ANTI-IMMIGRANT ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  March 24, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... the author of a new book about ``orphan trains,'' says that the people who, between ... living parents, threw then onto ``orphan trains'' and turned them over to almost ... writing of the man who created the orphan trains, Protestant minister Charles Loring ...