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Background imageFilthy Collection: Hands Full. Southbank Middlesbrough 1970s

Hands Full. Southbank Middlesbrough 1970s 1970s

Background imageFilthy Collection: Chimneysweep / Mayhew 1864

Chimneysweep / Mayhew 1864
Back bent by the weight of his brushes, a young chimneysweep stands before the grate

Background imageFilthy Collection: Abscess from a gunshot wound in the forearm, 1815

Abscess from a gunshot wound in the forearm, 1815
Abscess in a sailor's forearm from a musket-ball wound in a naval battle, 1815

Background imageFilthy Collection: Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 11

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 11
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A view of some of the makeshift buildings that have grown among the rubbish tips. This is where the better off Zabballeen people live circa 1995

Background imageFilthy Collection: Dirty Father Thames 1848

Dirty Father Thames 1848
Dirty Father Thames stands in the river water hooking detritus and rubbish that's floating there: old shoes and boots, dead fish, bottles, dead mice and rats

Background imageFilthy Collection: Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 10

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 10
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A man catches a pig. It will be eaten. There is little time for religious niceties among the poverty and filth of the rubbish tip

Background imageFilthy Collection: Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 8

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 8
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A cart pulled by two donkeys stops in the rubbish-strewn streets Date: circa 1995

Background imageFilthy Collection: Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 9

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 9
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A man catches a pig by the leg. It will be eaten. There is little time for religious niceties among the poverty and filth of the rubbish tip

Background imageFilthy Collection: Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 6

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 6
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A small girl child dodges past a donkey cart in the rubbish-strewn streets Date: circa 1995

Background imageFilthy Collection: Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 7

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 7
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A cart pulled by three small donkeys carries rubbish and three men from the tip Date: circa 1995

Background imageFilthy Collection: Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 5

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 5
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. Three young girls sift though the smoking rubbish Date: circa 1995

Background imageFilthy Collection: Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 2

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 2
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A femae child wearing what might once have been a pretty pink dress. It is now ragged and filthy Date: circa 1995

Background imageFilthy Collection: Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 4

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 4
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A small boy carries a tin can into which he will put small metal items he finds among the rubbish Date: circa 1995

Background imageFilthy Collection: Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 3

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 3
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A small boy scrabbles in the rubbish with his bare hands. More children work behind him Date: circa 1995

Background imageFilthy Collection: Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 1

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 1
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A ragged child finds a piece of bread among the rubbish and offers it to her sister, who clings to her brother Date: circa 1995

Background imageFilthy Collection: Filthy streets, Mokattam, Cairo

Filthy streets, Mokattam, Cairo
The filthy street of Mokattam in the middle of the rubbish tips of Cairo, Egypt Date: circa 1995

Background imageFilthy Collection: Rubbish tip Zabbaleen children, Cairo

Rubbish tip Zabbaleen children, Cairo
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt Date: circa 1995

Background imageFilthy Collection: Rubbish tip Zabbeleen children, Cairo

Rubbish tip Zabbeleen children, Cairo
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt Date: circa 1995

Background imageFilthy Collection: slum child with dog

slum child with dog
A dirty, barefoot boy eats a biscuit while standing on the doorstep of his slum home with a dog. Brinksway, Stockport Cheshire Date: circa 1970

Background imageFilthy Collection: Slum child eating

Slum child eating
A small, dirty, barefoot boy on the doorstep of his slum home in Brinksway, Stockport Cheshire Date: circa 1970

Background imageFilthy Collection: Slum child

Slum child
A small fair-haired dirty boy wipes away tears with his thumb as he looks at the camera. Brinksway, Stockport condemned housing. North of England slums Date: circa 1970

Background imageFilthy Collection: German caricature of Russian soldiers, WW1

German caricature of Russian soldiers, WW1
German caricature of Russian soldiers in 1914 at the beginning of the First World War. Date: 1914

Background imageFilthy Collection: Path of a Drunkard

Path of a Drunkard
The path of a drunkard is a story of degradation from polite civility to filthy clothes and unruly behaviour. Date: 1866

Background imageFilthy Collection: Its My Turn. Stockton-on-Tees 1970s

Its My Turn. Stockton-on-Tees 1970s 1970s

Background imageFilthy Collection: The London Bathing Season, filthy River Thames

The London Bathing Season, filthy River Thames
The London Bathing Season cartoon

Background imageFilthy Collection: Boy drying his face on a towel

Boy drying his face on a towel
A boy looks up rather guiltily, having been caught drying his face and hands on a towel when they are not properly clean. The water in the sink is filthy. Date: 1953

Background imageFilthy Collection: Comment on Mixed bathing from two dirty London tramps

Comment on Mixed bathing from two dirty London tramps
In the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting a vagrant couple giving their opinion on bathing

Background imageFilthy Collection: A London dust-yard

A London dust-yard
A pig rummages in a London dust-yard, while a man digs through the rubbish and women sieve the dust hoping to find things of value

Background imageFilthy Collection: Orphan in Bath 1925

Orphan in Bath 1925
A filthy Russian orphan is given a thorough bath

Background imageFilthy Collection: Shoeblack (Petherick)

Shoeblack (Petherick)
London characters: a SHOEBLACK wearing the uniform of the London Shoeblack brigade, who polish gentlemens boots in the filthy streets of London

Background imageFilthy Collection: Working Mens Bar, Paris

Working Mens Bar, Paris
A working mens bar, Paris

Background imageFilthy Collection: Faraday & Filthy Thames

Faraday & Filthy Thames
Faraday giving his card to Father Thames


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