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New York City at the turn of the 20th Century
Street urchins - most likely homeless - play next to the carcass of a dead horse that probably spent its life pulling a work wagon and dropped dead where it lay.
Many of these street children were rounded up by the city's Children's Aid Society, placed aboard "Orphan Trains" and transported to the West where they were resettled in welcoming rural households. At the end of the line, the child might find a loving, nurturing home or a life of near-slave labor. |
