Tenant Collection

Kitchen of tenant purchase client. Hidalgo County, Texas. Date 1939 Feb

Landlady discovers the lodger in the bath
The Lodger was in the bath. A landlady receives a nasty surprise as she comes across the lodger taking a bath

Ex-tenant farmer from Texas, came to work in the fruit and vegetable harvests. Coachella Valley, California. Date 1937 Spring

Tenant of a mountain farm, West of Ireland, early 1900s

The Rent Day Date: early 19th century

RMS Titanic - archive of Joseph Bell, Chief Engineer
RMS Titanic, archive of Joseph Bell (1861-1912), Chief Engineer on the Titanic, and victim of the disaster. Collection of letters and ephemera relating to Mr Bell's son Frank

Charles Parnell at a Anti Rent Meeting 1879
Charles Parnell an Irish nationalist, addressing an anti-rent meeting at Limerick, Ireland. Date: August 1879

Comic postcard, Rent collector and tenant Date: 20th century

Draycott, Cotswold village, Mrs Roper and her children
Draycott, Cotswold village, Mrs Roper and her four children, the last tenants of The Brick House (in the orchard to the north of Farm Close). The house was built circa 1863 and demolished circa 1949

TENANT FARMER & LAWYER TENANT FARMER & LAWYER
Tenant farmer at the mercy landowners: awkward scene at lawyers office as farmer is refused renewal of his lease Date: 1865

Cartoon, Making progress. A young woman sitting at the piano tells her friend: My voice is coming on -- I just had a complaint from the tenant on the sixth floor ! Date: 1919

Greenhouse / Fox Ash
A greenhouse on the Lands Settlement, Fox Ash Estate, Ardleigh, Essex. Money made from the crops grown on each holding are used to supplement the tenants income. Date: circa 1960

Cartoon, No need to worry, WW1
Cartoon, No need to worry, showing various complacent people, soldiers and civilians, thinking that war isn t such a bad thing, as they themselves are doing all right. Date: 1916

Aftermath of fire, London Hop Exchange
Aftermath of a fire at the London Hop Exchange in Southwark Street on 20 October 1920. A board leaning up on the right lists the temporary addresses of the tenants

Rent-Payer Murdered
Tenant farmer James Brennan, who has paid his rent contrary to Land League instructions, is shot by moonlighters through a window while sitting with his brother. Date: 14 December 1880

Ex-tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California. Date 1937 Mar

Tenant farmer. Chatham County, North Carolina. Date 1939 July

Children of Sam Nichols, Arkansas tenant farmer. Date 1935 Oct

Mr. and Mrs. John Landers, tenant farmers, at the backdoor of their farmhouse, near Marseilles, Illinois. Date 1937 Jan

Paying the rent. Scene from the Swedish every day life Date: 1850s

Britains Smallest House
Tom Thumbs House, Conway, north Wales, reputed to be the smallest house in Britain. A 6 foot 3 inch tenant lived here for 15 years! Date: late 1930s

Burns / The Twa Dogs
THE TWA DOGS I ve noticed on our Lairds court day, An mony a time my hearts been wae, Poor tenant bodies, scant o cash

Peasants seizing potato crop, Ireland
Peasants seize the potato crop of an evicted tenant near Tralee, Kerry, in Ireland. Men, women and children dig for the unharvested potatoes with shovels, spades and their bare hands

Irish Peasants attacking an Eviction Party, Ireland, 1887
Engraving showing several poor Irish farmers preparing to attack an eviction party with boulders, Ireland, 1887. Absentee landlords evicted tenant farmers who could not pay their rent during

Madman with Gun / 1899
A madman shoots an innocent tenant in a lodging house during an attempt to seize him

French Quit Rome
As the French quit Rome, Vittorio Emanuele II presents himself to Pius IX as the new tenant - but it will be some years before he is able to take up residence !

Anne Bronte / Profile
ANNE BRONTE Author of novels Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Farm Destroyed
When tenant-farmer M Cormack pays his rent contrary to Land League instructions, his home is burnt down by moonlighters (terrorists)

Land League Demo
The Land League stage a demonstration at Limerick, calling on tenant farmers to refuse to pay rent so long as the Land League is outlawed by the authorities

Gifts for Old Cottager
The visit to the cottage - the lady of the manor greets her bible-reading cottage tenant, while her page carries in a hamper of good things

Events / Ireland / Evictions
A tenant, sickle in hand, refuses to be turned out of his cottage even though his landlord has a posse of police to support him

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