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Abandoned [electronic resource] : foundlings in nineteenth-century New York City / Julie Miller.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2008.Description: xiii, 319 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.76 22
LOC classification:
  • HV885.N5 M55 2008eb
Online resources:
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-310) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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