A History of the New York Juvenile Asylum and Its Orphan Trains: Volume Two: Companies Sent West (1854-1868)

by Clark Kidder

By the mid-1800s, the streets of New York City were home to an estimated 30,000 homeless, truant or orphaned children. These poor unfortunates were destined to commit petty crimes, be truant from school or home, or enter into prostitution, creating a tremendous drain on city resources and society in general. Magistrates committed the youthful offenders to asylums by the hundreds, one of which was the New York Juvenile Asylum, established in 1851.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1736488422
• ISBN13: 9781736488423
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Kidder Productions, LLC
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 11.0"