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Two dogs not invited to Tabithas for teaTwo dogs, Rags and Forager, not invited to Tabithas for tea, smell delicious food and decide to investigate. Date: 1914
Two young Moroccan Girls with buckets on their heads Date: circa 1930s
Yichang, China - Chinese BeggarChinese Beggar on the street at Yichang, a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province, Peoples Republic of China. Date: 1920
Serbian Beggar - clutching a handful of unusual root vegetables... Date: circa 1910s
Wandering Algerian musicianItinerant Algerian musician playing a local three-stringed guitar-type instrument. Date: circa 1910s
Cissie Milford as Skittles - At The Worlds MercyCissie Milford as Skittles " At The Worlds Mercy." Date: circa 1911
The effects of WW1 on French Food Prices - AFTER (2 / 2)The Household Accounts The effects of the First World War on French Food Prices - in 1918 (2/2) Date: circa 1918
Young children on the street with the youngest in a pramCarriage Folk? Certainly not a fancy carriage in sight for these three! Date: 1900
Two extremely ragged men reading a smart fashion magazine. Bill Snooks (reading from a fashion paper) - " To be really well dressed
Poor street magazine seller and childA poor ragged woman with a very beaten-up face pictured ironically selling the magazine Larks on the street whilst clutching her infant child Date: circ 1898
Two ragged street women disgust respectabilityIn the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting two poor ragged street women disgusting another who they describe, with no hint of the obvious irony, as " not respectable"
Witty tramp and disgusted older woman - Phil May CartoonIn the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting a witty (if rather drunk) tramp and disgusted older woman, who refuses to provide charity
Tramp holding out a strip of paperDown on his luck tramp in rags, seated and holding out a strip of paper Date: circa 1890s
Portrait of a provincial Turkish peasant (in Istanbul)Superb head and shoulders portrait photograph of a provincial Turkish peasant (photograph likely to have been taken in Istanbul). Date: circa 1920s
Save scrap for victory! Save metals, save paper, save rubber, save rags. Poster for the Philadelphia Salvage Committee encouraging scrap drives to aid the war effort. Date between 1941 and 1943
The dude. Date c1884 Nov. 26
Poster: I need your Rags. A man in uniform explains that rags are needed for salvage, to make engine wipers, blankets, uniforms, overcoats, etc as part of the War Effort. circa 1940s
Poster requesting Rags for salvagePoster: request for Rags for salvage. Rags are needed to make engine wipers, blankets, uniforms, overcoats, gun wadding, charts, roofing felt, maps, etc
A Bhutia Coolia. The Bhutia are ethnic Tibetans who speak a Tibetan dialect. Their ancestors migrated from Tibet to Sikkim, Darjeeling
Mexican Revolution - Dead in the DoorwayMexican Revolution (1910-1920) - Diligence - The brave dead lying in the doorway. Date: circa 1911
Kabyle Women and babies - Algeria. The Kabyle are Berbers from North Eastern Algeria - estimated population today of 5 million individuals. Date: circa 1910s
Wartime salvage poster asking for rags, paper, bones and metal. Waste is wanted for war weapons. This week and every week salvage is essential. 1940s
Chinese Beggar Date: circa 1910s
The Three R sFollowing the introduction of the Elementary Education Act, commonly known as Forsters Education Act, in February 1870, Punch magazine depicts William Forster, the Liberal MP who drafted the Act
India - Madras - Street Children Date: circa 1910
A very poor man - Algiers, Algeria Date: circa 1920s
Origin Species, CH Bennett, Beer drinker - fishAs thirsty as a fish. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a fish to a beer drinker. With his fin in his pocket, a few old rags
The Rag and Old Iron SellersThe Rag Sellers. " Rags, old iron for sale!". A scruffy street urchin wheels a pram jam-packed with rags and old iron - her baby sibling atop the pile - through the streets of Paris
Sidi Ukba, AlgeriaA street in Sidi Ukba (Okba) in the Biskra Province, Algeria. It was named after the Muslim General Uqba ibn Nafi who died there in 683 AD
Turkish Beggar - Constantinople
Cilicia - Adana - Turkish Beggar ( Sofou )Sofou, a Turkish beggar from Adana, Cilicia, Turkey
Mendicant Priest or Fakir - Hinduism - India
Tunisia - Old BeggarA fine photograph of an old Tunisian beggar in rags
Greek beggar AssimakisWell-known Greek beggar Assimakis, swathed in rags and holding a very large staff
Two young Tunisian beggar childrenTwo pretty young Tunisian street beggar children
Young Bedouin Girl - TunisiaA young Bedouin Girl from Tunisia
Chinese Dung CollectorsYoung children scrape animal droppings off a paved walkway
Rag-And-Bone ManA ragman picks up pages from stories and plays discarded on a French street and fills the basket on his back, seemingly content to ignore the wild dog snapping at his heels
Generous Beggar / 1833TRUE GENEROSITY " When I see anyone worse off then myself I pity them" ( Where will he find one ) A ragged yet forthright beggar offers a generous view on life
Beggar / Owen ClanceyOwen Clancey. A noted London beggar, who it seems is not quite as bereft of the use of his legs as it may appear at first glance
Young Gypsy ChildA young Gypsy child with a remarkable wool hat sits atop a pile of horse tack and rags drinking from a teated milk bottle under the axel of the family caravan
Cartoon commentary on Germanys lack of moneyA cartoon commentary on Germanys lack of money after the First World War. The German man in the foreground is in rags, and has no trousers, but none of the other European powers is able to help
Zena Dare / Postcard 1907ZENA DARE Actress, dressed as Cinderella
Mrs Campbell / Eliza 1914MRS PATRICK CAMPBELL English actress as Eliza Doolittle in the first performance of Shaws Pygmalion in 1914
Ww1 / Cooling Gun BarrelA German soldier puts wet rags over an over-heated artillery gun barrel to cool it down
Hark, the Dogs do BarkSome in rags and some in tags and some in silken gowns the beggars come to town but these two girls keep a prudent distance while their dog barks protectively
17th Century BeggarA beggar in Germany at the time of the Thirty Years War
Ww2 Salvage HandbillBOMBS AND BULLETS FROM YOUR DUSTBIN - Every Woman can help to Win the War - every Patriotic household is asked to save every scrap of paper, rags, bottles, empty tins