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Alone in the world : orphans and orphanages in America Catherine Reef
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reef, Catherine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orphans--United States--History.
- Orphans.
- Orphanages--United States--History.
- Orphanages.
- Physical Description:
- 135 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Clarion Books, c2005.
- Summary:
- From the almshouses of the 1800s to the foster home programs of the present, find out about our country's evolving attitudes toward its neediest children.
- Contents:
- Thrown upon the world
- Asylum children
- Saving youthful hearts
- Let society beware!
- Soldiers' orphans
- Everyone's business
- This army of children
- Afterword: where life led some of the children who appeared in this book.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-129) and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Credit Line -- emblem of the Philadelphia House of Refuge, Society Print Collection.
- ISBN:
- 0618356703
- OCLC:
- 56371426
- Publisher Number:
- 9780618356706
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