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Naming the Poor in Late Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia - Sherri Broder. Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Late Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 259 pp. Introduction, illustrations, notes, index, $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8122-3654-8.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2010

Susan Traverso
Affiliation:
North Central College

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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2003

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