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DVD

The orphan trains

Call Number

  • DVD 362.734 O749 (CEN)

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Languages

Closed-captioned.

Performers

Narrated by Stacy Keach.

Publication Information

[Alexandria, VA] : PBS Home Video, [2006]

Physical Description

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

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Examines the efforts of the Children's Aid Society in New York, organized by minister Charles Loring Brace, which from 1854 to 1929 sent over 150,000 unwanted and orphaned children from the city to homes in rural America.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally broadcast on PBS as an episode of American experience in 1995.

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