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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
{% capture baseRoot %}
{% relativeUrl "/" %}{% endcapture %}
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href={{baseRoot | append: "/css/writing.css" }}>
<link rel="stylesheet" href={{baseRoot | append: "/css/header.css"}}>
<link rel="stylesheet" href={{baseRoot | append: "/css/footer.css"}}>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Orphan Train Passengers</title>
</head>
<body>
{% comment %}
This provides the information and acknowledgements for this project.
{% endcomment %}
{% render 'header', urlRoot: baseRoot %}
<h1>ABOUT THE PROJECT</h1>
<div class="paper">
<p class="essayParagraph">This project makes available the names of over 2,000 children and youth sent to the
state of Nebraska between 1854 and 1929 by the Orphan Train movement. The term “Orphan Train” refers broadly
to the placing-out system initiated by the Children’s Aid Society in 1853 that sought to give New York
City’s homeless or orphaned children new homes. The placing-out system is largely attributed to creating the
foundations for the modern-day foster care and children’s welfare system in the U.S. While not all children
placed in new homes during this period rode a literal train, the term has become synonymous with the system
of placement that gave them new homes.</p>
<p class="essayParagraph">No comprehensive list of Orphan Train riders exists today, but it is estimated that
over 200,000 children from the state of New York and other eastern cities were sent to over 40 different
states across the U.S. between 1854 and 1929. It is estimated that anywhere between 3,000 and 4,000 children
arrived in the state of Nebraska between those years.</p>
<p class="essayParagraph">This project hopes to contribute to the development of a list for the state of
Nebraska and provide the means to assist the families of descendants and research alike in discovering more
about the riders and their stories.
</p>
<h2>A Note on Methods</h2>
<p class="essayParagraph">The nature of the placing-out system causes difficulties in locating and
reconstructing the lives of the Orphan Train children. Their records are typically scattered in various
archives and online databases across the U.S. today, sometimes making research difficult. In addition,
records held by the institutions that housed and placed the children often restrict access to records for
privacy concerns, only reserving access for family members seeking more information about their relatives.
Thus, determining whether a child was an Orphan Train rider, or where they went, can prove to be difficult.
</p>
<p class="essayParagraph">However, various local newspapers, annual reports by aid societies, federal and state
census records, collaboration with other research institutions, as well as various reminiscences by the
riders themselves have proven to be valuable resources in constructing more comprehensive lists of the
children that took part in this movement. It is through these means that this project has generated a list
of riders to Nebraska.
</p>
<h2>Special Thank You to the Castner Family
</h2>
<p class="essayParagraph">A special thank you goes to the members of the Castner family for their dedication
and hard work to uncover more about the children sent to Nebraska. The information provided on Nebraska’s
Orphan Train riders was first collected by the Castner family, whose relatives (Albert, Clarence, and Clark
Castner) rode an Orphan Train to Madison, Nebraska on November 20, 1908. This project would not have been
possible without their generous contributions.
</p>
<h2>Credits</h2>
<h3>Student Creators</h3>
<ul class="creditList">
<li>Kelly Clausing - Data Entry</li>
<li>Tristan Curd - Research student, responsible for site coding and design, data cleanup</li>
<li>Brianna DeValk - Research student, responsible for writing site text, data entry, analysis</li>
</ul>
<h3>CDRH Staff</h3>
<ul class="creditList">
<li>Karin Dalziel - Technical advice</li>
<li>Laura Weakly - Content advice, data entry, metadata</li>
</ul>
<h3>Technical Information</h3>
<ul class="creditList">
<li>Built with <a href="https://www.11ty.dev/">Eleventy Static Site Generator</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/CDRH/orphan_train">Data Repository on GitHub</a> </li>
</ul>
<h2>Photo Credits</h2>
<p class="essayParagraph">Photos courtesy of <a href="https://history.nebraska.gov/collections/">History Nebraska</a>. See image citations below for information on individual photos.</p>
<h3>ID: 17955</h3>
<p class="photoCredits">
“Robert Panzer, New York, 1921.”<br/>
Date: 1921<br/>
Collection Code: RG2346<br/>
Collection Name: Orphans<br/>
History Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.<br/>
</p>
<h3>ID: 17957</h3>
<p class="photoCredits">
“John Panzer, Orphan Train Child, New York, 1921.”<br/>
Date: 1921<br/>
Collection Code: RG2346<br/>
Collection Name: Orphans<br/>
History Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.<br/>
</p>
<h3>ID: 17956</h3>
<p class="photoCredits">
“Harold Panzer, New York, 1921.”<br/>
Date 1921<br/>
Collection Code: RG2346<br/>
Collection Name: Orphans<br/>
History Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
</p>
<h3>ID: 17958</h3>
<p class="photoCredits">
“George Panzer, Orphan Train Child, New York, 1921.”<br/>
Date: 1921<br/>
Collection Code: RG2346<br/>
Collection Name: Orphans<br/>
History Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
</p>
<h3>ID: 17954</h3>
<p class="photoCredits">
“Panzer Brothers, 1930.”<br/>
Date: 1930<br/>
Collection Code: RG2346<br/>
Collection Name: Orphans<br/>
History Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
</p>
<h3>ID: 1388</h3>
<p class="photoCredits">
“Steam Locomotive #134 with its tender and passenger cars at the depot in Ulysses, NE.”<br/>
Date: circa 1910<br/>
Collection Code: RG5804<br/>
Collection Name: Coffman, Frank Sr<br/>
History Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
</p>
<h3>ID: 24422</h3>
<p class="photoCredits">
Title: “Black and White Photographic Print of a Portrait of Toni Weiler.”<br/>
Date: circa 1915<br/>
Collection Code: RG0839.PH<br/>
Collection Name: Weiler, Toni (M. Antoinette), 1911-1996<br/>
History Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
</p>
</div>
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