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

By: Miller, Julie, 1959-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2008Description: xiii, 319 p. : illSubject(s): Abandoned children -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.76 LOC classification: HV885.N5 | M55 2008Online resources: Click to View
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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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