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Appalled by the numbers of destitute children on the streets of New York, Charles Loring Brace created the Children's Aid Society and organised a programme of adoption across the US. Between 1854 and 1929 some 250,000 children were found homes in the country. This is his story, and theirs.

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    A Paperback / softback by Stephen O'Connor

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/03/2004
      ISBN13: 9780226616674, 978-0226616674
      ISBN10: 0226616673
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      Biography: historical, political and military

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      Book Synopsis
      Appalled by the numbers of destitute children on the streets of New York, Charles Loring Brace created the Children's Aid Society and organised a programme of adoption across the US. Between 1854 and 1929 some 250,000 children were found homes in the country. This is his story, and theirs.

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