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1916

Orphanages and Foster Homes During the Great Depression

1930

New York government finally investigated orphanages and found kids with cropped hair, eating tin plates, and some with no food at all. They would work every day for 8 hours, and would have 1 hour of school at night.

Large orphanages turned into small group homes.

1850

New York had 24 orphanages alone, and conditions were not good, there were 100 kids a dormitory.

1935

Thank You

1890-1930's

Orphans were sent out west to be adopted by farm families for labor.

  • Foster homes took in kids for work
  • Even with all of the foster homes some kids were still left homeless
  • Some kids ran away so that their parrents would have one less mouth to feed
  • Orphanages didn't get money from the government

1970

Bibliogaphy for book

Almost all orphanages went out of buisness and turned into foster care.

  • Name of Book:Alone in the World
  • Authors last name: Reeth
  • Authors first name: Catherine
  • Name of publisher: Caliven Books
  • City book was published: NY,NY
  • Copyright Date: 2005

Bibliography for Website

  • Title of the website: History of Orphanges
  • Website address: www.slideshare.net/michellmoon67/history-of-orphanages
  • Date article was posted: 2015
  • Today's date: 2015
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