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A moment in history unfolding as the children from the New York Foundling Hospital arrive in Opelousas, Louisiana in 1907 to meet their new families and begin the adventure of a new life.
Painted by Louisiana artist Robert Dafford, Lafayette, Louisiana
The Louisiana Orphan Train Society, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to collecting and preserving those items that tell the history of the orphan train riders who came to the area by train from New York Foundling Hospital between 1854 and 1929 and using this collection to inform and educate the public.