Miller, Julie,  1959- <br/><br/>
Abandoned  foundlings in nineteenth-century New York City /  [electronic resource] : 
Julie Miller. 
 - New York :  New York University Press,  c2008. 
 - xiii, 319 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-310) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2009. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Abandoned children--History--New York (State)--New York--19th century.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV885.N5  / M55 2008eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.76