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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.

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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.

Susan Traversoa1

a1 North Central College

Susan Traverso is Associate Professor of History at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Her book, Welfare Politics in Boston, 1910–40, will be published by University of Massachusetts Press this winter.