What Were the Orphan Trains and Why? Stories of Orphans Who Rode The Trains.

The Orphan Trains ran from mid 1800s to 1929. Children from all over the world were riding the trains across America. Some were immigrants who came to Ellis Island.

Resources: Photos
Bain News Service, publisher
George Grantham Bain Collection
Makviragok Wikimedia Commons
Lewis Hine Wikimedia Commons
Berenice Abbott Wikimedia Commons
Jacob Riis Wikimedia Commons
Byron Company (New York, NY) Wikimedia Commons
Underwood & Underwood Wikimedia Commons
Resources:
Kaily Carson
Nancy Owens, published- Platte Telegraph 1997
Mary Bigger, publish 1993
OrphanTrainDepot.org
Deerfield Public Library
National Orphan Train Complex
Ruth Kennison, "Orphan Voice"
The Orphan Train Heritage Society
John Boswell, " The Kindness of Strangers"
Wayne Carp, editor, "Adoption in America"
Susan Porter, Article, "A Good Home"
Ellen Herman, University of Oregon, "Adoption History Project"
M. Gottlieb, "The Foundling", 2001
Lawrence and Pat Starkey, "Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries", 2001
Bernadine Barr, "Spare Children, 1900-945"