Wealth Gallery

Tsai Shen Yeh - The Chinese God of wealth

Tsai Shen Yeh is a Chinese God of wealth (often also called Lu Shing or The Star God of Wealth). Images of the God can be seen in many Chinese and oriental houses and buildings, most often near their entrances (helping them attract wealth and prosperity to those places as well as acting as a protection to their environments and the income which comes to them). Pictured here distributing money, a Chinese custom at New Year. Date: circa 1920s

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Trades in Regency England: glass-blowing, colliery

Trades in Regency England: glass-blowing, colliery and tanning. Workers blowing molten glass into bottles and goblets in a Newcastle factory 67, coal miners digging coal in a Newcastle colliery 68 and tanners preparing leather skins in pits of pure in Hexham 69. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor's Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865

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Trades in Regency England: Greenland ship to Hull

Trades in Regency England: Greenland ship to Hull, broad-cloth manufacture and watchmaker. Sailship bringing whale blubber oil from Greenland to the port of Hull 61, weaver making broadcloth on a loom in a cottage in Leeds 62, and watchmaker at his desk in Lancaster 63. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor's Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865

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