| Description |
xiii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-310) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Abandoned children -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
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Abandoned children. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| ISBN |
9780814757253 cl alkaline paper |
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0814757251 cl alkaline paper |
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9780814757260 paperback alkaline paper |
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081475726X paperback alkaline paper |
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