Ragged Collection

Houseless and Hungry by Luke Fildes
A study entitled Houseless and Hungry by Luke Fildes depicting homeless paupers queuing outside the casual ward of a London workhouse. A policeman stands at the left of the scene

Cinderella by Arthur Rackham
Ella, aka Cinderella, sitting in rags with a broom in her hand. Date: 1919

Beerbohm Tree as Rip Van Winkle, based on the story by Washington Irving, probably at Her Majestys Theatre, London. circa 1900

Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - trumpeter. circa 1910s

Kashmir, River Jhelum - woman paddles a wooden boat
Kashmir, River Jhelum - woman with two small children paddles a flat-bottomed wooden boat, or shikara Date: 1986

Modern Athenians plate 21 - Edinburgh
John Menzies (d. 1843) of Pitfodels, being approached by Rev. Thomas Guthrie (1803-1873) of Old Greyfriars Church, Scottish churchman and philanthropist, promoter of the ragged schools

Water Babies / Tom / Sweep
Tom, the ragged chimney sweep at the cottage of the Irish woman

Ragged School Union - Cobbling Class
Boys at work in the shoe-making workshop at a home run by the Ragged School Union Date: circa 1907

London Ragged School, Battersea 1890s
The London Ragged Schools Union was established in April 1844 to combine resources in the city, providing free education, food, clothing, lodging and other home missionary services for poor children

Comic postcard - arrival of a new baby
Humorous comic postcard - arrival of a new baby. Mother and Child doing well - Not a word about Father....!! 1909

This poor young ragamuffin looks up at the night sky and spects Heavens a very SMART
This poor young ragamuffin looks up at the night sky and " spects Heavens a very SMART place" Date: 1950

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortresses flying on a mission
United States Army Air Force - Boeing B-17G Flying Fortresses, of the 323rd Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bombardment Wing The Ragged Irregulars, flying on a mission from RAF Bassingbourn

Cries of London, fly paper seller
Cries of London, Catch em Alive-Oh, Fly Paper Seller. Date: 19th century

I Danced with a Beggar Date: 1925

Receipt, Ragged School Union, London
Receipt for donation to the Ragged School Union, London, 22 May 1894 Date: 1894

One Tun Ragged School, Westminster
Children outside the One Tun Ragged School, in Perkins Rents, Westminster, housed in a former pub. Date: circa 1860s

Beating the Charge at the Battle of Dettingen, 27 June 1743 Date: 1743

WW1 poster, Souscrivez a l'Emprunt National - Pour le Drapeau! Pour la Victoire! (Subscribe to the National War Loan - For the Flag! For Victory!) Date: 1917

Waxwork Effigies in Westminster Abbey, 1872
A verger of Westminster Abbey guiding visitors to the waxwork funeral effigies of the Ragged Regiment or Play of Dead Folks, 1872

Ragged Robin and Water Forget-Me-Nots Gardens
Ragged, Robin, and, Water, Forget-Me-Nots, Gardens, Garden, Flowers, Watercolour, painting, Edith, A, Andrews, 12022133

Annie Myers, opera and stage singer Date: 1890s

Seymour Hicks as Jonathan Wild in Little Jack Sheppard Date: 1890s

Comic postcard, Lost and found clothing Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, The saint and the sinner Date: early 20th century

New Year party at the Hoxton Market Christian Mission and Ragged School in January 1924 given by C. P & Sons. A rather sinister Father Christmas holds the attention of a large number of children

Music cover, The Guards Quadrille by Bushez. 19th century

Ragged Robin, Lychnis flos-cuculi, and black false hellebore, Veratrum nigrum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Mallow, Malva sylvestris, and ragged robin
Mallow, Malva sylvestris, Monadelphia, 1-4, and ragged robin, Lychnis flos-cuculi, Decandria, 5, 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F

Chinese lychnis or ragged robin, Lychnis coronata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sansom from William Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1793

Music cover, Any Rags? by Thomas Allen, sung by Rachel Lowe. A ragtime schottische written in 1902. Date: circa 1900s

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

Shaftesbury Society, Arthur Street Home, London
A group of children stand at the rear of the Arthur Street Home run by the Shaftesbury Society and Ragged School Union. The children appear to be inmates or pupils of the establishment

Outcast woman outside a house 1871
Outcast woman outside a house. Date: 1871

Victorian Street Vendor - Daily Herald Newspaper. 19th century

Curtis British Entomology Plate 591
Lepidoptera: Euplocamus mediellus = Morophaga boleti (Boletus Tinea) [Plant: Lychnis flos-cuculi (Ragged Robin)] Date: 1824-39

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

A ragged street boy is impressed by the boyish look of a smart young woman. Date: 1926

Young girls at a Ragged school in Grays Yard, James Street in Oxford Street, London. Making new patent toy-work for an exhibition at the mansion of Earl of Shaftesbury in Grosvenor Square

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

Shoe-Black Brigade 1851
The Shoe-Black Brigade were an offshoot of the Ragged School system. Date: 1851

Ragged School Union dinner 1900
Interior of Ragged School Union in Camberwell, South London. Children sit at long tables eating soup from a bowl. Date: 1900

BUY A FLOWER, LADY? 1887
Buy a flower, lady? A poor London flower girl tries to make a sale Date: 1887

HOMELESS IN ST JAMESS
Early morning - the Enumerator taking the census in St Jamess Park. The homeless are woken and interviewed. Date: 1861

LYCHNIS FLOS-CUCULI
RAGGED ROBIN Date: early 20th century

Pantomime, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, with Annie Purcell
Pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, with Annie Purcell as Principal Boy. circa 1905

A ragged driver sits on his cycle rickshaw, India
A ragged driver sits on his cycle rickshaw waiting for fare-paying pasengers. He looks up the street and picks his teeth. Jaipur, Rajasthan, India Date: 1984

Three fishermen, Sri Lanka
Three ragged fishermen, two wearing headscarves, stand ready to launch their outrigger, prau, fishing boat from shallow water Munnakkara, Sri Lanka Date: 1994

Ragged man and children, Kashmir
A ragged man with a sack on his head for shade, stands and poses for a photograph in the street with his two small daughters Date: 1986

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