TY - BOOK AU - Miller,Julie ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Abandoned: foundlings in nineteenth-century New York City AV - HV885.N5 M55 2008 U1 - 362.76 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Abandoned children KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=866192 ER -