Philadelphia's Progressive Orphanage: The Carson Valley School

by David R. Contosta

Book Overview

For more than seventy-five years, the Carson Valley School has served the needs of orphaned girls and other dependent children from Philadelphia and neighboring Pennsylvania counties. Its hundred-acre campus is remarkable for its rolling terrain, neo-medieval buildings, and design as a fantasy village. A legacy of the progressive education movement of the early decades of the twentieth century, the school was formally opened in 1918 as the Carson...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271017147
• ISBN13: 9780271017143
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"