Orphan+Train

toc This page was created for Mr. Rose's class to support their research on Orphan Trains. The Orphan Train Movement occurred from 1850-1930. There is much information available about this phenomenon both in print and online.

=Print Resources= Search the [|Riverside Media Center catalog] for information about the Orphan Trains.

Search the [|Durham County Library catalog] for information about the Orphan Trains.

=Online Searches= Use Webpath Express, linked on the left side of the [|Riverside Media Center catalog], to find reviewed websites guaranteed not to be blocked by school filters.

[|NC WiseOwl] links to many databases in its menu on the left side of the page. These databases include magazine articles on a wide variety of subjects.

The [|Internet Public Library] also has a searchable database of resources.

=General Websites= There are many websites relevant to your study of the Orphan Trains. These links give a good overview of the topic:
 * [|National Orphan Train Complex]
 * [|GeneaLinks]
 * [|American Experience: The Orphan Trains]
 * [|Children's Aid Society]
 * [|Irish Children and the Orphan Trains]
 * [|A History of the Orphan Trains]
 * //[|The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America]// Book Preview on Google Books

=Other Topics= Mr. Rose has also incorporated the following topics into this assignment:
 * homeless children and jobs
 * orphanages
 * the Five Points neighborhood of New York City
 * entertainment, including vaudeville
 * city planning and transportation in the 1870s

See the links below for more information on each of these subjects.

Child Labor

 * [|Child Labor in U. S. History]

Orphans and Orphanages

 * [|Orphans in Orphan Asylums] (Olive Tree Genealogy Site)
 * [|New York Children's Aid Society]
 * [|The Children's Aid Society of New York] (Book Review)
 * [|Children's Home of Poughkeepsie]

Tenements

 * [|Tenement Museum]
 * [|Child Labor in NYC Tenements]
 * [|Tenements] (at The Architecture and Development of New York City)
 * [|How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York] by Jacob A. Riis (Online Book)
 * [|On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century]

Vaudeville

 * [|Vaudeville! A Dazzling Display of Heterogeneous Splendor]
 * [|What Is Vaudeville?]
 * [|Virtual Vaudeville]

New York in the 1870s

 * [|Big Apple History]
 * [|Blackwell Island]