The orphan trains
(2006)
Nonfiction
DVD
Call Numbers:
DVD/362.734/ORPHAN
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[Alexandria, VA] : PBS Home Video, [2006]
DESCRIPTION
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
0793691508 AMEX6804, 9780793691500, 0793691508 :, 841887006514
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Documentary
Young minister Charles Loring Brace founded the Children's Aid Society, sending orphans west to begin new lives with farm families. Until 1929, Brace's Society and other charities sent more than 150,000 neglected children by train to 47 states
Originally broadcast on PBS television in 1995
Narrator, Stacy Keach
Introduced by David McCullough
Not rated
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo
Closed-captioned