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Poor mans orchid, Schizanthus grahamii (Blunt-petalled schizanthus, Schizanthus retusus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S

Poster, Two Little Vagabonds, Royal Princesss Theatre
Poster, Two Little Vagabonds by Sims and Shirley, touring from the Royal Princesss Theatre, London. 1897

Sir Benjamin Louis Cohen (1844-1909) was a businessman and Conservative politician. From 1887 to 1900 he was president of the Jewish Board of Guardians for the Relief of the Poor

Jewish Board of Guardians Offices, London
The Middlesex Street headquarters of the Jewish Board of Guardians for the Relief of the Poor. Date: circa 1896

Caterham Asylum, Surrey - Male Training
A male training workshop at Caterham Imbeciles Asylum. Like its twin at Leavesden, the asylum was established in 1870 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board for Londons sick poor with mental conditions

The Rauhe Haus, Hamburg
Inmates outside the Rauhe Haus, Hamburg. The establishment was founded in 1833 to provide industrial training for poor boys

West Ham Infirmary, Whipps Cross, Leytonstone
Entrance to the West Ham Union Infirmary, Whipps Cross, Leytonstone, Essex. The infirmary, better known as Whipps Cross Hospital

Emigration - A melancholy prospect. 19th century

Trespass Offering of the Poor 1840
This depicts a trespass offering (also known as a guilt offering) which was a sacrifice made as a compensation payment for transgressions that were committed through ignorance

Hot-cross buns for poor children in the East-end of London
Some 500 children were given a feast of hot-cross buns on Good Friday at the Salmon Lane Mission, Limehouse Fields. Date: 1910

Crossing-sweepers 1849
Poor couple sweeping the streets of London. Date: 1849

Crossing-sweeper that has been a maid servant
Woman sweeping the streets of London

Crossing-sweeper nuisance Crossing-sweeper nuisance 1856
Group of young children with brooms, sweeping the ground as a gentleman walks alone, asking for a ha penny. Date: 1856

Boys crossing-sweepers, London boys asking an affluent gentlemen for a penny for keeping the streets tidy. Date: circa 1850s

Advert for Mellins Emulsion 1895
Mellins Emulsion, medicine for children and adults to help with coughs, colds and bronchitis. 1895

Poster, The Poor Mans Burden -- Lloyd Georges Budget on food, beer, tobacco and spirits. Date: circa 1909

Exterior of the new Lambeth walk, Ragged School, erected by Mr. Beaufoy for poor and destitute children in the neighbourhood. Date: 1851

DEATH THE REAPER OF POOR
DEATH - THE TRUE RELIEVING OFFICER Dedicated without permission to the Poor Law Board Date: 1868

DEATH RELIEVES THE POOR
DEATH - THE TRUE RELIEVING OFFICER Dedicated without permission to the Poor Law Board Date: 1868

ALPHABET / X FOR EXPENSIVE
X - was expensive, and so became poor. Date: 1867

During the severe winter weather the Great Arthur Street Mission of Golden Lane were keeping starving people of the East-End of London feed. Men seated on long benches, being served warm soup

Unkempt girls receiving punishment from another older pupil at Field Lane Ragged School, London

SAINT BENEDICT OF NURSIA remonstrates with the monks when they complain that he has given too much of their food to the poor. Below, Spoleto, his birthplace Date: 480? - 547

Woman sitting in her own home in South London, making the hat boxes for a supplier that make silk hats for the richer society

Phil May cartoon - Tuneless Street band
1904

The General Election - True Blue
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - True Blue. A Candidate takes a few local yokels out for a ride in his carriage to show solidarity with the common man voter... 1908

Informal group of nurses outside large institution. Seven nurses in relaxed group outside large poor law institution ?like building. Date: circa 1935

The Old Musician by Edouard Manet (1832-1883) - painting on canvas. Date: 1862

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

St Johns Childrens Home, Ipswich
Boys pose in the garden of the St Johns Childrens Home on Bloomfield Street in Ipswich. The home was opened in 1879 by the Ipswich Poor Law Union to house pauper children away from the workhouse

County Home, Mercer, Pennsylvania, USA
A view of the County Home at Mercer, Pennsylvania - a publicly funded home for the elderly poor. Date: Date unknown

Peabody Square, Westminster 1869
Peabody Square, Westminster, for the dwellings of the poor. Date: 1869

Mother begging in streets of London 1851
Mother selling flowers from a basket for a bit of money in the Strand, London, while her baby sleeps in her arms. Date: 1851

Distribution of Plants to Poor Londoners, Victoria Park
A series of scenes during a distribution of plants to Londons poor, held in Victoria Park, London, in the autumn of 1879. The images show (clockwise from top left)

King Cheer by James Godwin
King Cheer giving gifts of food and fruit to the poor. Date: 1864

Canterbury Union Workhouse proposal 1846
An isometrical view of the proposed Workhouse to be built at Canterbury, Kent. The design was presented by Henry Parker, a former Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, at a meeting in November 1846

Whats left?, woman and children waiting for leftovers
A woman and a group of children wait for leftovers at a fishmonger and poulterers shop. A well-to-do mother and daughter are seen leaving the shop

Half penny dinners for poor children, East London 1870
Dinners for children cost half a penny in this soup kitchen in East London. Date: 1870

Communards cleaning out the coffers of the Church 1871
Communards cleaning out the coffers of a convent of the Little Sisters of the Poor, during the Paris Commune of 1871. The Communards were anti-religious

Lodgings for travellers 1856
London travellers could afford to rent lodgings in the poor districts in the out-of-the-way suburbs of London, neglected purlieus in dirty and diseased neighbourhoods. Date: 1856

Homeless men sleeping on Southwark Bridge, London 1900
Homeless men sleeping rough in London. Date: 1900

Easter Sunday at Toulon, France 1858
Easter Sunday at Toulon in France, washing the feet of the poor. Date: 1858

George Peabody (1795 - 1869), American financier and philanthropist. He is widely regarded as the father of modern philanthropy

St. Pancras new infirmary, Highgate 1870
St. Pancras Workhouse North Infirmary at Highgate, North London, was erected in 1868 - 1871. Designed by Messrs John Giles & Biven, Date: 1870

New Workhouse, Upper Holloway, London 1870
Exterior of the intended building for erection of a workhouse, at Upper Holloway, for the parish of St. Mary, Islington, containing about seven acres and tree quarters of land. Date: 1870

Soup kitchen, Limehouse 1860
Food distribution at the Strangers Home, West India Dock Road, Limehouse, London. Date: 1860

Bethnal-Green Employment Relief Association 1868 Bethnal-Green Employment
Labour-yard of the Bethnal-Green Employment and Relief Association, in East London. The stagnation of trade which followed on the commercial crisis of 1866

Streets seller - relish 1871
Poor woman selling relish on the streets of London. Date: 1871

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