children's aid society (new york, n.y.)

Examines the history of the Children's Aid Society, the organization that sponsored the orphan train program through which an estimated 200,000 orphans found homes in the years between 1854 and 1929, and presents the stories of nine participants in the program.

After being taken away from their parents in 1910, twin sisters Nettie and Nellie are put on the orphan train to Kansas by the Children's Aid Society and end up in a house where they are treated more as servants than children.