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Lodging-houses

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  • A man with a carpetbag and an umbrella enters a lodging house and asks for a room, but the landlady rejects his request, thinking that his carpetbag identifies him with a man who had defrauded other lodging houses. Wood engraving after Phiz. (Hablot K. Browne).
  • Three men seeking lodgings standing on the doorstep of a house where the charwoman (Benjamin Disraeli) addresses them from the window; representing the enfranchisement of lodgers. Process print, 1878, after J. Tenniel, 1867.
  • Private's billet : Blairgowrie, 18... Mr... for the period of ... night ... billet master : if lodging is not provided, give three-pence per night to each man, and return the billet.
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Catalogue

    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Private's billet : Blairgowrie, 18... Mr... for the period of ... night ... billet master : if lodging is not provided, give three-pence per night to each man, and return the billet.

    | Date: [Before 1900]
    • Books

    Common lodging-houses and kindred institutions / report by the medical officer of health.

    Menzies, F. N. Kay | Date: 1927
    • Books

    Forgotten men : a study of a common lodging house undertaken by the London Council of Social Service at the request of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

    | Date: [1960]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Three men seeking lodgings standing on the doorstep of a house where the charwoman (Benjamin Disraeli) addresses them from the window; representing the enfranchisement of lodgers. Process print, 1878, after J. Tenniel, 1867.

    Tenniel, John, 1820-1914. | Date: [1867] | Reference: 35799i
    • Books
    • Online

    Report, recommending that application be made to the secretary of state for authority to make regulations as to lodging houses / by Dr. Hillier. With appendix, containing draft regulations suggested by Dr. Hillier.

    St. Pancras (London, England) | Date: 1867
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