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2024-01-04 23:48:52 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: A0CEB108FFC33DDCF8ECF91C59D9799924764F3FA9300BC958E1CB7FB96F8481
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Children were not sold at fairs. The image used is from a baby incubator exhibit at a 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0310057X221148277 Welfare organizations on the East Coast organized the Orphan Trains, to find homes for orphaned children: https://urbanafreelibrary.org/local-history/blog/recently-processed-orphan-train-collection
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