Charitable Collection (page 2)

Comic postcard, Vicar with group of women Date: 20th century

WW1 poster, Le Secours de Guerre (relief agency for war victims), showing a gendarme, soldiers and civilians near the Ancien Seminaire St Sulpice, the premises of the agency in Paris. Date: 1916

Homeless man asks for donation from PDSA collector
A homeless man asks PDSA collector for donation, Central London. Date: circa 1950s

Members of the Guide International Service, rehearsing mass food preparation and serving in the open air. The Guide International Service provided volunteers to work in relief camps in Europe during

Comic postcard, Temperance woman and drunkard Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Vicar with group of women. And now, dear friends, I want a Committee of Ladies to sit on the supply of eggs! Date: 20th century

New Year party at the Hoxton Market Christian Mission and Ragged School in January 1924 given by C. P & Sons. A rather sinister Father Christmas holds the attention of a large number of children

Literary and artistic contributors to the charitable magazine, Printers Pie, lined up for a photograph during a dinner given by W. Hugh Spottiswoode at the Savoy

Front cover of Printers Pie magazine illustrated by John Hassall showing Simple Simon rummaging in his pocket for money to give ye Pieman except in this case, the Pie is the magazine

Front cover of Printers Pie, 1908, illustrated by John Hassall, featuring a shopkeeper in the doorway of Ye Pie Shop, the same that was featured on the cover of the previous years magazine

Front cover of Printers Pie, 1914 with a cover illustration by John Hassall showing a oe of his typical medieval or Elizabethan characters visiting a baker for a very large pie

Front cover of Printers Pie magazine, 1907, designed by John Hassall, with a shopkeeper standing in the doorway of Ye Pie Shop, surrounded by encouraging advertising boards

Advertisement or advertorial for Onoto safety pens in Printers Pie magazine, featuring an illustration of the many contributors to the magazine reading a copy

Front cover of Printers Pie magazine for 1911, illustrated by John Hassall and featuring one of his typical medieval characters chasing after a dog

Naval School Greenwich
The Royal Naval School was formally constituted by the Royal Naval College Act 1840. It was a charitable institution, established as a boarding school for the sons of officers in the Royal Navy

Representation of Charity - Money for a poor crippled boy
A moral postcard depicting Charity as two smartly-dressed young girls offer some coins to a poor, crippled young boy with crutches, sat at the side of the street. Date: 1909

Dog owners given free licences
Over 200 free licences were given to dog owners too poor to pay the 7s. 6d. tax. The licences were presented at the Regal Cinema, Marble Arch

Royal British Female Orphan Asylum, Stoke Damerel, Devonport, Plymouth, Devon. Under the immediate patronage of the Queen, for the support of 100 female orphans of sailors, soldiers

Charity letters, Buckingham Palace, London, WW1
Charity letters from Princess Mary and the Duke of Devonshire, Sailors and Soldiers Christmas Fund, October and November 1914. 1914

A Sewing Class, Guild of the Good Samaritan
A Sewing Class, The Guild of the Good Samaritan, Clothe the Poor, making up material sent by our readers. 1899

His Mother Hardly Knew Him, The Guild of the Good Samaritan, Clothe the Poor. 1899

Before and After, The Guild of the Good Samaritan, Clothe the Poor. 1899

A Rig-Out for Jack, The Guild of the Good Samaritan, Clothe the Poor. 1899

A New Hat for Cabby, The Guild of the Good Samaritan, Clothe the Poor. 1899

Cartoon, Victimised Citizen - Here comes that cadger, Old Father Christmas, again! John Bull digs in his pocket for some change. 1884

Tallulah Bankhead, Elsa Lanchester & Gwen Farrar
Stars of a charity matinee in aid of the Central Council for the Care of Crippled Children organised by Gwen Farrar (second from left) and attended by H.R.H. the Duchess of York

View inside the Chapel, Foundling Hospital, London
View inside the Chapel, Foundling Hospital, Bloomsbury, London, founded by Thomas Coram and opened in the 1740s. Date: 1845

View of St Katharines Hospital, Regents Park, London
View of the Royal Hospital of St Katharine, Regents Park, London. It was founded in the 12th century by Queen Matilda, wife of King Stephen

Rich mans kichen staff at work
A rich mans kichen staff at work, depicting the hospitality and charity of old times, when food was given away to poor people. 16th century

SPG Missionary Exhibition, Brighton Dome, Sussex
SPG (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel) Missionary Exhibition, Brighton Dome, Sussex -- two women at the Melanesia table, with a native hut, artefacts, books and portraits of clergymen

Four costumes for the Eclipse Ball, a pageant ball to take place on 17 December at the Park Lane Hotel, London, in aid of St Johns Hospital, Lewisham

Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold with Dame Bewley
Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales and her husband Prince Leopold of Belgium finding Dame Bewley at her cottage door reading her old Bible. circa 1816

Nieces of Duchess of York selling RNLI flags
Jean and Elizabeth Elphinstone, nieces of the Duchess of York, selling Royal National Lifeboat Institute flags. 1935

WW1 - A group of young girls collecting for wounded soldiers
WW1 - A group of young girls dressed as nurses collecting for wounded soldiers in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France circa 1915

Young boy flees from the Duchess of York
April, 1928 - The Duchess of York in Chichester, Sussex at a charitable Garden Party - she was presented with purses, but this young lad, overcome by the occasion

Albert, Duke of York - kicking off a Charity Football Match
Prince Albert, Duke of York (future King George VI) (1895-1952) - kicking off a Charity Football Match in aid of the Dockland Settlement and Malburn Boys Club, Canning Town

History of Medicine. Modern Age. Carity Hospital. Engraving. 17th century

New Asylum for Fatherless Children, Reedham 1858
Exterior of the new Asylum for Fatherless Children, at Couisdon, near Croydon. Date: 1858

Shoe-Black Brigade 1851
The Shoe-Black Brigade were an offshoot of the Ragged School system. Date: 1851

EXETER HALL / MEETING 1844
Exeter Hall: interior view, with a large May Meeting in progress (many charitable organisations held their meetings there) Date: 1844

EAST END MISSION
Men and boys seated on benches inside a charitable East End Mission Date: 1895

WELL CARED FOR
Old ladies well cared for - more fortunate than some ! Date: 1886

Charitable children deliver Christmas gifts
Children take Christmas gifts to underprivileged villagers. Date: 1893

The Princess Mary Caravan - The Caravaners at work. The Girls Friendly Society supported young women by help in finding work, providing hostels etc

The Silver Jubilee Aldershot Military Tattoo. An annual event dating back to 1894. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Aldershot Command Searchlight Tattoo held at the Rushmoor Arena presented displays

St Cross Hospital Brother with dole, Winchester
A Brother of The Hospital Of St Cross, Winchester England. He holds the dole - offered to those in need. It is the oldest surviving charitable institution in the UK

St Cross Hospital Brother, Winchester
A Brother in his robes walks in the Inner Quadrangle of The Hospital of St Cross, Winchester England. It is the oldest surviving charitable institution in the UK

Volos, Greece - Capital of Magnesia - The Poor Asylum
The Poor Asylum at Volos, a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 330km north of Athens and 220km south of Thessaloniki

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