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The orphan trains : placing out in America / Marilyn Irvin Holt.
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TextPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1992.Description: 248 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: - 0803223609 (alk. paper)
- 362.7/34/0973 20
- HV985 .H65 1992
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Main Library | NonFiction | 362.734 H758 | Available | 33111003396625 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Setting aside our present-day romantic notions about orphan trains, Holt's book sheds valuable new light on the phenomenon by putting it in the context of nineteenth-century ideals about childhood, the roles of social reformers, the changing theories of relief and welfare for the poor, western development, and rail expansion.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-236) and index.