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Images about Poverty

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  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • Shoes and legs of a woman holding a handbag standing next to an advertising banner with the statement: 'People with HIV in poverty row; Daily Gossip'; advertisement for the Terrence Higgins Trust advice centre. Colour lithograph.
  • A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A man and woman, semi-nude but bedecked with jewellery, accompanied by Death, are kneeling on a representation of the poor: in the background are factories with smoking chimneys. Lithograph after H. Schwaiger, ca. 1900.
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • A woman in ragged clothing stands inside a stone niche holding a bowl; representing poverty. Coloured aquatint by H. Shaw, 1843.
  • Hospital ward in Liverpool Workhouse; requisitioned for wounded soldiers. Pencil drawing.
  • Life and labour of the people in London / edited by Charles Booth.
  • St. John of God carrying a sick patient from a hospital ward. Line engraving by G. Petrini.
  • A gin palace as a "temple of Juniper", with other scenes illustrating puns. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
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Great Britain
Social Welfare
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History, 19th Century
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