Alms Collection

The Virgin Mary giving alms to unfortunates at the manger. Joseph seated at right, Jesus in a cradle in the barn

Fakeer - Religious Beggar - at Pune (Poona) India
Fakeer - Religious Beggar with an Ox - at Pune (Poona) India Date: circa 1905

Alms houses at Thaxted Date: early 1900s

Alms houses at Thaxted, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Alms Houses, Vicars Close, Wells

Wells - Vicar's Close Alms Houses - Victorian period

Alms Houses, Blistern near Christchurch

Blistern near Christchurch Alms houses Victorian period

Moreton Hampstead Alms Houses

Moretonhampstead Alms Houses Victorian period

Chaddesley Corbett Almshouses early 1900s

Buddhist priests collecting alms, Burma, Myanmar, c.1890

c. 1880s Japan - pilgrims begging for alms
c.1880s Japan - pilgrims begging for alms

Mother and child giving charity. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Augustin Legrands Amour et Tendresse (Love and Tenderness), Louis Janet, Paris, 1820

Beggar seeking alms, Egypt, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Strolling beggars in China knocking their heads together and on a stone in order to extort alms. Date: 1737

Strolling beggars in China with burning coals
Strolling beggars in China laying burning coals on their heads and using other austerities in order to extort alms. Date: 1752

Tetouan - Street Beggar
" One can admire the stubborn insistence of the Maghreb" - a pleading Tetouan street beggar holding out his bowl and asking for alms. Date: 1930s

Jane Scrimshaw (127)
JANE SCRIMSHAW A Londoner who never married, she became a resident of Merchant Taylors alms-house, about 1630, and stayed there some 80 years. Date: 1584 - 1711

Hartley Hospital & Homes, Colne, Lancashire
Hartley Hospital & Homes, Colne, near Burnley, Lancashire, England. Private Hospital & Alms Houses Date: 1910s

Armenian monks, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem
Armenian monks at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. Date: 1920s

Russia - Wandering Russian Mystic begging for alms Date: 1902

Old man at Ram Raja Temple, Orchha, India
An old man outside the Ram Raja Temple, Orchha, Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Dedicated to Lord Ram or Rama, the temple was built in the 16th century in the centre of the city of Orchha

Young Hindu Ascetic asking for Alms - India
Young Hindu Ascetic asking for Alms - Bombay, India. Date: circa 1900s

Burmese monks (hpongyees) collecting alms, Burma. Date: circa 1905

Buddhist Monks take the tram home from the Shwedagon Pagoda
Buddhist Monks (Hpoongyees) take the tram home from the Shwedagon Pagoda - Entrance (with leogryph) with their alms - Yangon, Myanmar. Date: circa 1908

Dr Whites Alms House
The old front of Dr Whites almshouse in Temple Street, Bristol Date: 17th century

Berengaria, Queen of Richard I (d 1230)
Berengaria, Queen of Richard I (d. 1230)

Woman from Grenada, 16th century, in long purple cape over a long brick-red dress.. With small toque headdress and blue alms purse. Handcolored illustration by E

Watts Alms Houses, Rochester, Kent
Watts Alms Houses, Rochester, Medway, near Chatham, Kent, England. Date: 1900s

The Call to Alms by Frank Reynolds
She: But, my dear George, you can t possibly mean that you start for the Front on Tuesday! Why on earth didn t you explain to them that its the opening day of the Bazaar

Almshouses, Cavendish, Suffolk
Almshouses in the village of Cavendish, Suffolk. Date: 1960s

St Marylebone Alms Houses
Saint Marylebone Alms Houses (built 1836) for the provision of charity Date: 1930s

Johann Pfenner
JOHANN PFENNER German Almos-schreiber (= alms-writer, whatever that means) from Nurnberg. Date: CIRCA 1579

James Palmer
JAMES PALMER Churchman and benefactor, founder of the Alms Houses in Tothill Fields, London. Date: 1585 - 1660

EMERY HILL London merchant, probably, who founded the Alms Houses and Free School in Rochester Row, Tothill Fields, Westminster. Date: ? - 1677

Irony - fat Londoner begs for money for his starving family
A rather fat Londoner begs for " a copper" for his " starving wife and family at ome" fom a smart gent (Phil May himself - clearly seeing the ludicrous side of the request!)

DOMENICO DI BARTOLO (1400-1447). Distribution of Alms. 1441-1444. ITALY. Siena. Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala (Santa Maria della Scala Hospital)

View of the new alms house for the city of Boston in the state of Massachusetts, erecting on Deer Island in Boston Harbor

Watchdog at Westminster Cathedral, London
A rather shaggy watchdog outside Westminster Cathedral, London

Xmas card. Giving alms to a beggar with dog
Traditional Victorian Christmas card Date: 1868

Great Alms Cliff
View at Great Alms Cliff, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, a rocky outcrop, commanding remarkable views of Wharfdale and the Plain of York. Date: 1950s

Blind Hannah Brentford, 1827
Hannah Brentford, blind musician of Bunhill-row, shown here aged 24 giving a street performance of hymns, accompanied by her violin

Threadneedle St / London
Ancient view incorporating Alms Houses and Merchant Hall Date: 1599

Kings County Alms House. Elderly woman seated next to a bed at the Kings County Alms House

Road to Mecca - Camels and Pilgrims. A beggar sits at the roadside, offered alms by a passing child

New Year, Modern Egypt
EGYPT The Islamic New Year is celebrated with the bestowal of charity - the Alms of Aschoura - by the wealthy to the poor

Social / Squires Door 18C
A charitable Squires wife wears a fashionable riding habit with a masculine cut & double cape-collar. Her top hat has a large ribbon rosette & her hair is worn long

Wounded Soldiers / Callot
The human cost of war. The crippled and wounded - the legless and armless are given alms. Soup is dished out from a cauldron in the street

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