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2024-01-05 00:36:23 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: B8994860E462F1A94C71F3FF7083F5A7415D66AE65A62452736A54150C709437
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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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