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Genre/Form: | History |
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Named Person: | Charles Loring Brace; Charles Loring Brace; Charles Loring Brace |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen O'Connor |
ISBN: | 0226616673 9780226616674 |
OCLC Number: | 1003331040 |
Notes: | Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2001. |
Target Audience: | Adult; Adult.; Adult. |
Description: | xxi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Responsibility: | Stephen O'Connor. |
Abstract:
Appalled by the numbers of destitute children on the streets of New York, Charles Loring Brace created the Children's Aid Society and organised a programme of adoption across the US. Between 1854 and 1929 some 250,000 children were found homes in the country. This is his story, and theirs.
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