Research Catalog

Title

The orphan trains [videorecording] / a production of WGBH ; produced and directed by Janet Graham and Edward Gray ; written by Edward Gray.

Publication

[Alexandria, Va.] : Distributed by PBS Video, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Graham, Janet.
• Gray, Edward (Edward S.)
• Keach, Stacy.
• WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
• PBS Video.

Description

1 videocassette (57 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.

Summary

Between 1854 and 1929 the Children's Aid Society in New York and other East Coast charities organized an ambitious rescue effort to send hundreds of thousands of homeless children to foster homes in farming communities. The video explores the successes and failures of this resettlement movement. Interviews with elderly survivors and century-old letters from children are included.

Series Statement

The American experience

Uniform Title

American experience (Television program)

Subjects

• Video recordings for hard of hearing people
• Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.)
• Adopted children > United States > History
• Orphan trains

Note

• On cassette label: AMEI804.
• "Vol. 1."--Cassette label.

System Details (note)

• VHS.

Language (note)

• Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Call Number

*UGS-878

OCLC

33989192

Title

The orphan trains [videorecording] / a production of WGBH ; produced and directed by Janet Graham and Edward Gray ; written by Edward Gray.

Imprint

[Alexandria, Va.] : Distributed by PBS Video, c1995.

Series

The American experience

System Details

VHS.

Performer

Narrator: Stacy Keach.

Language

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Added Author

Graham, Janet.

Gray, Edward (Edward S.)

Keach, Stacy.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

PBS Video.

Added Title

American experience (Television program)

Publisher No.

AMEX-804 PBS Video

Research Call Number

*UGS-878 [Video]

*UGS-878+