Boys Aboard on an Orphan Train

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This picture depicts orphaned boys looking out of the windows in an orphan train car.

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All Aboard the Orphan Train! – The History of Opelousas' Orphan Train Movement

By Matthew D. Mayer

During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, there was a crisis in New York City with mothers abandoning their infants in front of orphanages due to the poor welfare institutions present. The Sisters of St. Peter’s Convent in New York…