Charity Collection (page 15)

Order of United Americans
United American man of the Order of United Americans. Partiotism, Charity, Harmony. Date: 1849

Exterior of Whitechapel Workhouse, 1855
Frozen out dock labourers wait to receive bread from Whitechapel Workhouse, 1855. Dock workers and owners of waterside premises faced starvation in the face of frost on the Thames

Sign Language - The Alphabet illustrated on a postcard Date: circa 1910s

Blind Veteran Soldier - St Dunstans Hostel
Set up in 1915, St Dunstans Hostel aided the recovery of servicemen blinded during the First World War. This is a charity postcard produced for St Dunstans showing a blinded serviceman being led by a

Boys Blind School Band - Fuzhou, China Date: 1910s

First public outing of newly wed Princess Margaret
One of the first public outings for Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon (Anthony Armstrong Jones) following their marriage in May 1960

Church Army Banquet at the Marylebone Baths
Nearly 500 poor people who enjoyed Christmas fayre at the Marylebone Baths in London provided by the Church Army at an event attended by the Duke and Duchess of Fife. Date: 1904

Royal Wedding 1919 -- Blind Trousseau Worker
A blind trousseau worker, making a finely knitted coat for Princess Patricias trousseau, operating a flat machine at the workshops of the London Association for the Blind, Churton Street, Victoria

Napoleon and Josephine enjoy street musicians

Racehorse Aldaniti at a charity fundraising event
The racehorse Aldaniti (1970-1997), a chestnut gelding, meeting admirers at a charity fundraising event. Aldaniti won the Grand National in 1981, and his jockey, Bob Champion

War Memorial Fund - Dog
A small dog dressed up as a nurse atop a Union Jack and next to a collecting tin for the Woolwich & District War Memorial Hospital Fund. Toby is never shunn d when asking! Date: early 20th century

Civil Service Christmas Fair - Ministry of Health
Toys collected for Childrens Charities at the Civil Service Christmas Fair - Ministry of Health section. An incredible assemblage! Date: circa 1930s

Bread to the poor people, Copenhagen, Danmark 1870. Date: 1870

Swedish Missionaries to the Congo - Sarah Andersson and Oskar Andersson Date: circa 1910s

National Amusement - The Bus Kitchen 1918
If the ministry of food carries out its latest scheme, there should be plenty of excitement in getting ones dinner from the travelling food kichens

Hospital, Chicago
Cook County Hospital is staffed by 64 house and 68 attending physicians, and 400 nurses, treating over 4000 charity patients. Date: 1916

When national kichens come in bulk! 1918
National Kitchens opened in the First World War to help poor people get hot food. Date: 1918

Group photo, Dr Berrys Serbian Mission
A group photograph of Austrian prisoners and their nurses at Dr James Berrys Serbian Mission, a Red Cross Unit in Serbia during the First World War

Westminster Almshouses, Rochester Row, London. A plaque on the wall reads - The Reverend James Palmers Charity, founded 1656, rebuilt 1851. Date: 1930s

Holy Cross Hospital
Holy Cross, or the Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester, was founded between 1132 and 1136 by Henry de Blois and has become Britains oldest charitable institution. Date: 12th century

Ox-Roasting Ceremony
Ox roasting at Leeds, Yorkshire, England, an old custom which was carried on by students of Leeds University, the proceeds going to charity. Date: 1950s

Pearly Kings Count Up
Counting up money donated to a Pearly King charity. Date: 1930s

Pearly Kings Charity
London Pearly Kings and Queens visiting young women in their hospital beds. Date: 1930s

Initiaion of the Rosy-Cross
The " transparent light of charity" is extinguished as part of the ceremony. Date: 1890s

Poster seeking donations for Prisoners of War

Princess Hermine Reuss of Greiz at a bookstall
Princess Hermine Reuss of Greiz (1887-1947), second wife of the deposed Kaiser Wilhelm II. Seen here at a bookstall in Doorn, Netherlands

Italian Pifferari, 1875
Italian pifferari elicits a donation from some wealthy music lovers beneath an awning. 1875

Mary Churchill supporting Russian flag day, 1944
Miss Mary Churchill, the youngest daughter of Winston Churchill, supporting her mothers Russian flag day, and bought her emblem from Nurse Glover of University College London Hospital. 1944

Mission Evangelique Bretonne, Tremel, France
Tremel, France (Cotes-du-Nord) - Mission Evangelique Bretonne - The Hospice. The number of children present suggests to me that this is in fact an orphanage. Date: circa 1910s

Christmas in the almshouse, Landskrona, 1910-15. Date: 1910-15

Dr Barnardos Musical Boys
The National Waifs Association (Dr Barnardos Homes) - Some of Dr. Barnardos Musical Boys. Date: circa 1907

Musical Boys Tour of Australasia
His Excellency the Governor of South Australia with Reverend W. J. Mayers and his travelling party. During 1908-10, Rev. W. J. Mayers and a party of Musical Boys toured in Australia and New Zealand

Jack, Firemans Dog
Jack, the Firemans Dog, collects in aid of firemen, though whether to buy them a new fire engine, or better living quarters, is not stated. Date: early 20th century

Dr Barnardos Homes
DOCTOR BARNARDOs VILLAGE HOMES for girls, near Ilford, Essex : tea on the lawn of Queen Victoria House. Date: circa 1904

Charity / Lodging House
Interior of kitchen in Victoria Home Lodging House, Whitechapel Date: 1900

Dancing Partnaer 1843
Dancing partners at a charity ball Date: 1843

West End Visits East
The West End visits the East End of London - a party of slummers are welcomed by some, but the barefoot children are scared and the sick creature in bed sees them as monsters. Date: circa 1890

Old and New Charity
Bestowing charity; old and new ways Date: 1830

Outside the Soup Kitchen
The poor and distressed throng the entrance to a soup kitchen : well-to-do passers- by look apprehensive as they are assailed by beggars Date: 1871

Halfpenny Dinners
Halfpenny dinners are provided for poor children in the East End of London. Date: 1870

A Charity Bazaar
A charity Bazaar in aid of the Royal National Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, Ventnor, an opportunity for fashionable folk to relieve their social consciences 1879

Dormitory blocks, Salvation Army Colony, Hadleigh, Essex
Dormitory blocks at the Salvation Armys labour colony at Hadleigh in Essex. Founded in 1891 as a farming colony, the centre is still in existence today as a Salvation Army employment training centre

Sir Charles Wakefield at National Childrens Home, London
State visit by Alderman Sir Charles Wakefield (1859-1941) and other City of London dignitaries to the London Branch of the National Childrens Homes (NCH), Bonner Road, Bethnal Green, East London

Workhouse inmate Mary Jane promoting charitable work
A postcard promoting the work of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). Its caption reads Mary Jane, who is a deaf and blind inmate of a Workhouse in Devonshire

Motorcycle Action Group - Charity Event
The Motorcycle Action Group prpepare to take toys to a Childrens ward during a charity event - Cornwall

View of Sackville College, East Grinstead, West Sussex
Exterior view of Sackville College, East Grinstead, West Sussex, a Jacobean almshouse founded in 1609 to provide sheltered accommodation for the elderly

Red Cross workers on World War One battlefield
A hand painted lantern slide depicting Red Cross workers on a World War One battlefield at night, looking for survivors after a battle

Sewing class, NIPRCC East Harling, Norfolk
Boys take part in a sewing class at the East Harling, Norfolk, branch of the National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control

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