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The orphan trains : placing out in America / Marilyn Irvin Holt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holt, Marilyn Irvin, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orphan trains.
- Physical Description:
- 248 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Placing out.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1992]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-236) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0803223609
- OCLC:
- 24377482
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