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Index
Abolitionism, [>], [>], [>]
See also Slavery
ACS. See Administration for Children Services
“Act to Prevent Evils and Abuses in Connection with the Placing Out of Children, An,” [>]
Adam (first man), [>], [>]
Addams, Jane, [>]–[>]
Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Adoption, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
desirability of, [>]–[>]
AFDC. See Aid to Families with Dependent Children
African Americans, [>], [>]
children, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
immigrants, [>]–[>]
Africans, [>]–[>]
Aid to Dependent Children, [>]
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), [>]
Alaska
Aleuts in, [>]
Athapascans in, [>], [>]–[>]
“Civilization Fund” in, [>]
Creoles in, [>], [>], [>]
crime in, [>]
education in, [>]
Eskimos in, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
frontier of, [>]
gold rush, [>]–[>]
Indians in, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
missionaries in, [>]
Native Americans in, [>]–[>]
natives in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Northwest Coast Indians in, [>]
purchased from Russia, [>]–[>]
Russians in, [>]
shady operations in, [>]–[>]
Tlingits in, [>], [>]
whites in, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Alcoholics Anonymous, [>]
Alden, Lyman P., [>], [>], [>], [>]
Alfred, Mr. (superintendent), [>]
Alger, Horatio, [>]–[>]
Allen, Ethan, [>]
Almshouses, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
America
changes in, [>], [>]
crime in, [>]
political system in, [>]–[>]
religion in, [>]
See also United States
American Female Guardian Society, [>]
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), [>], [>]
Angus, Red, [>]
Argosy, [>]
Arizona, [>]
Supreme Court, [>]
Arthur, Chester Alan, [>]
Aryan race, [>]
Asian children, [>]
ASPCA. See American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Astor Place Riot, [>], [>], [>], [>]
“Asylum-Interest,” [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Asylums, juvenile, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Atheists, [>]
Austrians, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Averell, James, [>]
Ayler, Alice Bullis, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Babies, [>]–[>]
See also Infants
Baby farms, [>], [>], [>]
Bachman, Dr., [>]
Barbauld, Mrs., [>]
Barber, Amos, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Barnardo, Dr., [>]
Baxter, George, [>]
Bed-wetting, [>]
Beecher, Catharine, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
autobiography of, [>]–[>]
Beecher, Henry Ward, [>], [>], [>]
Beecher, Lyman, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Beecher family, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Bellevue Hospital, [>]
Bellevue Nurses Training School, [>]
Bellingham, Bruce, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Bergh, Henry, [>]
Biddle, Mrs. James C., [>]
Bigelow, Mr., [>]
Birtwell, Charles, [>]
Blacks. See African Americans; Africans; Racism; Slavery
Blackwell family, [>]
Blackwell’s Island (Roosevelt Island), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Charity Hospital on, [>]
Blake, William, [>]
Bliss, C. N., [>]
“Block grants,” [>]
Boarding out children, [>], [>], [>]
Booth, William A., [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Booth, W. R., [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Boston, [>], [>], [>]
Boston American, [>]
Boston Children’s Aid Society, [>]
Bowery Boys, [>]
Boys
and crime, [>]
at industrial schools, [>]
morality of, [>]–[>]
as prostitutes, [>]
sexuality of, [>]–[>]
Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Francisco, [>]
“Boy Who Confessed His Sin
, The” (Hope), [>]
Brace, Charles Loring (Charley)
abolitionism of, [>], [>]
and adoption, [>]–[>]
ambition of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and “Asylum-Interest,” [>]–[>]
birth of, [>], [>]
and boys, [>]–[>]
and Bushnell, influence of, [>]–[>]
and children, main emphasis changed to, [>]–[>]
and Children’s Aid Society, founding of, [>]-[>], [>]
and Civil War, [>], [>]–[>]
and congregate care institutions, [>]–[>]
criticisms of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
death of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
defensiveness of, [>]–[>]
earnestness of, [>]–[>]
ecstatic expansion of, [>]
education of, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
faith of, [>]
and family, [>]–[>]
and Five Points Mission, [>]–[>], [>]
fundamental beliefs of, [>]-[>], [>]–[>]
in Germany, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and God, as inspiration, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and good father, [>]
and home life, [>]
and homosexuality, [>]–[>]
honored, [>]
in Hungary, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
illnesses of, [>]–[>]
imprisonment of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and indenture, reinvention of, [>
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