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Orphan Trains by Marilyn Irvin Holt Placing out in America Soft Cover
The Orphan Trains by Marilyn Irvin Holt
Soft Cover
248 pages
Copyright 1992
CONTENTS
Introduction, i
CHAPTER ONE
Ideals, Demands, and Motivations, 9
CHAPTER TWO
A Plan for "Little Wanderers", 41
CHAPTER THREE
Others "Think of a Home Over There, 80
CHAPTER FOUR
A Plan Embattled, 118
CHAPTER FIVE
The Close of an Era, 156
Epilogue, 188
Notes, 195
Bibliographical Essay, 225
Index, 237
ILLUSTRATIONS
Following page 96.
1 Orphans in New York City
2 "Work of the Children's Aid Society"
3 Boys from London's Home and Refuge for Destitute Children on their way to Wakefield, Kansas
4 Orphan train on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad line
5 "Washing Up," at the Duane Street lodging house for newspaperboys
6 Broadside announcing impending arrivals from the New York Children's Aid Society
7 A 1909 New York Aid Society group in Lebanon, Missouri
8 Broadside announcing impending arrivals from the New York Juvenile Asylum
9 "Santa Claus among the Foundlings," at the New York Foundling Hospital
10 "Mealtime" at the New York Foundling Hospital
11 A group from the New England Home for Little Wanderers in Goshen, Indiana, 1888
12 Charles Loring Brace
13 A group of boys from the New York Children's Aid Society before leaving New York City for Texas in 1912
ON THE BACK COVER
"From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This `placing out,' an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known by the `orphan trains' that carried the children. Holt carefully analyzes the system, initially instituted by the New York Children's Aid Society in 1853, tracking its imitators as well as the reasons for its creation and demise. She captures the children's perspective with the judicious use of oral histories, institutional records, and newspaper accounts. This well-written volume sheds new light on the multifaceted experience of children's immigration, changing concepts of welfare, and Western expansion. It is good, scholarly social history."-Library Journal.
"Soon there will be no memories of the `little companies,' as they were called, of children setting out with an adult leader for a new life. This little book is kind of a preservation movement, and a contribution to our understanding of how the West was won."-David Shribman, Wall Street Journal.
"As a portrait of the time's charitable networks, The Orphan Trains succeeds.... [Holt's] work brings to light a meaningful concept: the idea that charity, then and now, is sometimes tinged with greed, indifference, hostility, self-promotion and is an institution that can serve the giver more than the receiver."-David James Rose, Washington Times.
Marilyn Irvin Holt, former director of publications at the Kansas State Historical Society, is a freelance editor, writer, and researcher and teaches historical editing at the University of Kansas.
Cover photograph courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society.
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