American experience, The orphan trains

Resource Information

The work American experience, The orphan trains represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Westfield Public Library (Ethel Everhard Memorial). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

American experience, The orphan trains

Title part

The orphan trains

Statement of responsibility

a production of Edward Gray Films, Inc. ; WGBH ; produced and directed by Janet Graham and Edward Gray ; written by Edward Gray

Title variation

Orphan trains

Contributor

• PBS Home Video
• Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
• Graham, Janet, producer
• Gray, Edward
• Keach, Stacy
• McCullough, David G

Subject

• Adopted children -- History
• Adoption -- History
• Brace, Charles Loring, 1826-1890
• Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.)
• Documentary television programs
• Documentary videos
• Historical television programs
• Orphan trains
• Orphans -- History
• Orphans -- New York (State) | New York -- History
• Street children -- New York (State) | New York -- History
• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Documentary television programs
• Documentary videos
• Historical television programs
• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired

Language

eng

Summary

Examines the efforts of the Children's Aid Society in New York, organized by minister Charles Loring Brace, which from 1853 to 1929 sent over 100,000 unwanted and orphaned children from the city to homes in rural America

Member of

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Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Narrator, Stacy Keach

Intended audience

TV parental guidelines rating: Not rated

Language note

Closed-captioned

LC call number

HV985

LC item number

.O7759 2006

PerformerNote

Host, David McCullough ; narrator, Stacy Keach

Runtime

60

Technique

live action