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Public Assistance

Financial assistance to impoverished persons for the essentials of living through federal, state or local government programs

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Images from the collections

Images referencing Public Assistance

4 images from works
  • The English poor in the eighteenth century : a study in social and administrative history / by Dorothy Marshall.
  • Les édifices hospitaliers depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours : De l'assistance publique et des hôpitaux jusqu'au XIXe siècle. Les hôpitaux au XIXe siècle ... / [C. Tollet].
  • Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.
  • Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.

Works from the collections

95 works

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    L'assistenza pubblica nella Siena di fine '800 / a cura di Francesca Vannozzi.

    | Date: 1991
    • Books

    Les édifices hospitaliers depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours : De l'assistance publique et des hôpitaux jusqu'au XIXe siècle. Les hôpitaux au XIXe siècle ... / [C. Tollet].

    Tollet, Casimir, 1828- | Date: 1892
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    A statistical inquiry into the present state of the medical charities of Ireland : with suggestions for a medical poor law, by which they may be rendered much more extensively efficient / by Denis Phelan.

    Phelan, Denis, 1785-1871. | Date: 1835
    • Books

    Les pauvres et le pouvoir : assistance et répression au pays de Liège (1685-1830) / par Nicole Haesenne-Peremans.

    Haesenne-Peremans, Nicole. | Date: 1983
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    Ealing and the poor : the Poor Law, the workhouses and poor relief in the parish of St. Mary Ealing, from 1722 to 1800 / [R.H. Lightning].

    Lightning, R. H. | Date: 1966

Related topics

Poverty
Social Welfare
History, 19th Century
United Kingdom
England
18th-19th centuries
Charities
History, 20th Century
Almshouses
Poor laws

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