Abandoned foundlings in nineteenth-century New York City - Miller, Julie, 1959-; ebrary, Inc. (New York : New York University Press, 2008)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-310) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Abandoned children -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century; Electronic books