Distribution Gallery

World map of the Geographical Distribution

World map of the Geographical Distribution of the Races of Men. Arabian in pink, Malay in green, Abyssinian in yellow, Papuan in dark blue, Mongolian in beige, Negrillo in ochre, Hottentot in blue, Telingan in red, Nubian in steel blue; Australian in sky blue and Negro in grey. Handcoloured steel engraving by J C Walker after an illustration by Charles Pickering from his The Races of Man, London, 1850. World map of the Geographical Distribution of the Races of Men. Arabian in pink, Malay in green, Abyssinian in yellow, Papuan in dark blue, Mongolian in beige, Negrillo in ochre, Hottentot in blue, Telingan in red, Nubian in steel blue; Australian in sky blue and Negro in grey. Handcoloured steel engraving by J & C Walker after an illustration by Charles Pickering from his The Races of Man, London, 1850. Date:

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Picking up sixpences at Smithfield 1902

Centuries-old tradition, when 21 sixpences were placed upon a flat gravestone in the churchyard at St. Bartholomew in Smithfield, London, on Good Friday morning. Gathered are twenty-one aged widows with the church officials and a few spectators. Photograph showing a widow kneeling and picking up one of the sixpences, on rising she receives a freshly-baked hot-cross bun from another gentleman, who then assists her to walk over the stone, subsequently each widow is presented with a penny.
1902

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WW1 - Comment on the food shortage

WW1 - To ensure food supply during shortages, National and local food control committees were established to ensure food distribution across the country. The illustration here depicts a queue of middle/upper class conscientious disgorgers, who appear to be patriotically contributing food supplies to the control in order to evade prosecution. Date: 1918

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