01787nam a2200349 a 4500 ebr10268964 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 071019s2008 nyua sb 001 0 eng 2007043280 9780814757253 (cl : alk. paper) 0814757251 (cl : alk. paper) 9780814757260 (pb : alk. paper) 081475726X (pb : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)646787362 n-us-ny HV885.N5 M55 2008eb 362.76 22 Miller, Julie, 1959- Abandoned [electronic resource] : foundlings in nineteenth-century New York City / Julie Miller. New York : New York University Press, c2008. xiii, 319 p. : ill. 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. Abandoned children New York (State) New York History 19th century. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10268964 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 8289 8289