Poor Collection (page 37)

Fishy Handouts
Children of the London poor hoping for scraps from the fishmonger at the close of the days trading

Two Old Drunks (Bobbin)
Heavy drinking has taken its toll on a pair of elderly drunkards with gnarled features and poor personal hygiene

Saint Pudentiana
SAINT PUDENTIANA A lady of Rome, daughter of Pudens, who gave her wealth to the poor and helped to bury martyred Christians

17th Century Beggar
A beggar in Germany at the time of the Thirty Years War

Nikolai Tsitsin
NIKOLAI TSITSIN Russian agronomist : rose from a poor peasant family to international repute in the improvement of crops etc

New Year Clown & Coster
A clown makes a coster pull a cart, while the poor old donkey has a free ride for a change

Mice and Beggars
A dog solicits a donation for his violin-playing companion, but the three students are as poor as church mice.... one carries a portfolio bearing Grandvilles name

Charity / Workhouse / Shoes
Shoemaking instruction at a Poor Law Institution

Moorgate Mission
Our London poor - a tea to seven hundred tramps and beggars in Moorgate Street Hall

Washing Day, Italy
Poor children of Castello, Italy, doing the family laundry on washing day

Goose Girl Horse Head
The Goose Girl looks up at a horses head, hanging on the wall

Jews Arriving in England
Russian Jews just landed in England

Fashion Visits Poor
Two ladies bountiful, in fashionable garb call on a have-not bearing gifts which include cast-off clothing for the sick womans daughter

Cat in a Hostel
A girl working in a London hostel for stray cats gives one poor cat the love and attention it craves for

Hereward Leaves Ely
HEREWARD THE WAKE How Hereward and his men left Ely (Cambridgeshire, England) by rowing boat and how his poor mare Swallow was told to swim, but drowned

Arab Horse Bewick
THE ARABIAN HORSE There is scarcely an Arabian, how poor soever in other respects, but is possessed of his horse, which he considers as an invaluable treasure

Starting Young
Poor kids ! The priests start them off with the Holy Spirit, then the distillers finish them off with spirits of the other kind

Reindeer (Bewick)
cervus tarandus The poor Laplander would find it impossible to subsist among their snowy mountains without the aid of this most useful creature

Hunting Alphabet - J
I J stands for Jorrocks of famed Handley Cross - but oh, the poor fellow has taken a toss !

Hogarth Poor Poet
The Distressed Poet and his wife both have problems : he wonders what to write, while his wife wonders how to pay the milkmaids bill

Moliere / Malade
LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE Argan meditates on his poor state of health

Mother Hubbard / Cupboard
Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her poor dog a bone When she came there The cupboard was bare And so the poor dog had none

Fiddler of Mainz
When a statue of the Virgin in Mainz cathedral gives a poor fiddler her shoe, he is nearly hanged for stealing, fortunately she gives him the second in full public view

Thalberg / Charity / 1 of 2
A poor family give each other simple presents at Christmas - pieces of fruit and biscuits Picture 1 of 2

Thalberg / Charity / 2 of 2
The Thalberg children arrive bearing generous presents of toys for the poor children Picture 2 of 2

Shelter for Jews
London : temporary shelter for poor Jews

New York Poorhouse
New York : men waiting for admission to the poor-house on Blackwells Island

Cripplegate Asylum
London : Asylum for the Houseless Poor, Cripplegate

Wassailing at the Manor
Poor old man and musical friends beg WASSAIL-BOWL from Lord of the Manor

Waiting for Pub to Open
Sunday in London - waiting for the public house to open at 1 pm

London Pub Scene 1872
Before the bar - a London pub of the kind which replaced the old gin-palace

Pub Opening Time 1856
Waiting for the pub to open, Sunday, London : note the street is named Paradise Gardens

London Gin Palace 1850
A London gin-palace, with the usual drunken father being led home by his sorrowful family

Community / Workhouse
Two workhouse inmates in the Chilvers Coton College for the Poor, Warwickshire

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