Title:
Abandoned foundlings in nineteenth-century New York City / Julie Miller.
Main Entry:
Miller, Julie, 1959-
ebrary, Inc.
Publisher:
New York University Press,
Publication Date:
c2008.
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
9780814757253 (cl : alk. paper)
0814757251 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814757260 (pb : alk. paper)
081475726X (pb : alk. paper)
Subject:
Abandoned children -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Children of accident and mystery : foundlings in history and memory -- New York as a nursing mother : foundlings in the antebellum city -- The murder of the innocents : New York discovers its foundlings -- The basket at the door : the foundling asylums open -- Out-Heroding Herod : the foundlings and the revolutionary -- The end of the foundling asylums -- Conclusion : the foundling disappears--almost.
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