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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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ORP

Patrick, Michael

Summary: Discusses the use of orphan trains to place orphaned or abandoned children in homes in nineteenth-century Missouri.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Missouri Press 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.734 PAT

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