The New York Daily News - Deserted in Subway -no date
Orphan Train Announcement - Illinois - 1888
The New York Daily Tribune - Thirty-five poor boys and girls sent to Iowa - 1888
New York Daily Tribune - New York Boys Sent to Virginia -1880
The Peabody Gazette Article - 1911
Bonham, Texas - The Orphan Boys - 1898
The Minneapolis Journal - Sixty-Seven Little Ones Shipped West From
New York - 1908 & 1909
Princeton Telegraph - Twelve Orphan Children Brought To Princeton
Thursday - 1906 (Missouri
Wilson County Citizen - New York Youngsters Have Joined a Dozen
Families-Two Are Left - 1916 (Kansas)
Maquoketa, Iowa Newspaper - Make A Choice of an Orphan - 1919
Newspaper Articles Describing Placements in Different States:
Orphan Train Advertising:
Articles on Orphans In New York:
Click on the links below to read some of the articles placed in the local
newspapers describing the placement of children from the Orphan Trains. Also,
you will find an example of the announcements placed in local newspapers
advertising an upcoming placement.  
These are examples of the types of letters the orphanages would send to the
adoptive/foster parents:
New York Foundling Hospital Letter
Catholic Home Bureau for Dependent Children Letter
Orphan Train History