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The children of the poor : representations of childhood since the seventeenth century / Hugh Cunningham.
Hugh CunninghamDate: 1991
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Shaftesbury Society (Ragged Union School) ... : season 1922 / Arthur Black, general secretary.
Black, ArthurDate: 1922
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A man with a wooden leg plays the violin while his wife and children accompany him with a song. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 44066i
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A poor family praying before eating their simple evening meal. Mezzotint by W. Baillie, 1784, after A. Ostade.
Adriaen van OstadeDate: 1 August 1794Reference: 17757i
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Malnourished children of the rural poor : the web of food, health, education, fertility, and agricultural production / Judith B. Balderston, Alan B. Wilson, Maria E. Freire, Mari S. Simonen of the Berkeley Project on Educatioon and Nutrition ; with forewords by Charles S. Benson, Sheldon Margen.
Date: [1981]
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A poor Savoyard woman surrounded by her children, one of whom she is breast-feeding. Engraving by N. de Larmessin III, 1746, after J.B.M. Pierre.
Jean-Baptiste Marie PierreDate: [1746?]Reference: 17435i
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Parents and children in the inner city / Harriett Wilson and G. W. Herbert ; with a contribution on incomes by John Veit Wilson.
Wilson, Harriett, 1916-2002.Date: 1978
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A woman breastfeeding her baby and looking after two small children in a rural setting. Engraving.
Reference: 17427i
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A sailor on a quay side with one arm in a sling holds out his other hand as if to push away the small beggar boy who is asking for help. Engraving by W. Chevalier, ca. 1840, after H. Brooke.
Brooke, Henry, 1738-1806.Date: 1840Reference: 31971i
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Growing up and getting by : international perspectives on childhood and youth in hard times / edited by John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson and Sarah Marie Hall.
Date: 2021
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A dispensary in the East End of London: crowds of local children are being vaccinated. Wood engraving by E. Buckman, 1871.
Date: 8 April 1871Reference: 17866i
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A girl in bed in a slum dwelling, Liverpool. Photograph by Thurston Hopkins, 1955.
Thurston HopkinsDate: 1955Reference: 44054i
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A very poor looking girl, sitting on a rock, is approached by a well-dressed girl who offers buns from the basket in her hand. Colour wood engraving after H. Tidey, 1867.
Tidey, Henry, 1813-1872.Date: [1867]Reference: 32040i
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Poor children of Shoreditch provided with free dinners. Halftone after W.D. Almond, 1888.
William Douglas AlmondReference: 3309i
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A farmer is watching a poor girl who is picking up small ears of corn; in the background is an expensive country house. Engraving by J.M. Delatre, 1788, after J.H. Ramberg.
Q882599Date: May 25th 1788Reference: 30049i
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A one-legged man in rags moving with the aid of crutches is accompanied by a child with a bandaged arm. Gouache on vellum.
Reference: 43781i
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Inquiry into the treatment, condition and mortality of infant children in the workhouse of the North Dublin Union.
George NichollsDate: 1842
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A veiled woman, kneeling, begs a young man for alms; her three sick children at her feet. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
Bartolomeo PinelliDate: 1809Reference: 576699i
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An old man with a wooden leg and a stick is accompanied by a girl carrying a bowl in her right hand. Etching by Jules Jacques Veyrassat.
Jules Jacques VeyrassatReference: 44076i
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Londons charitie, stilling the poore orphans cry : Providing places and provision, by the care and indeavour of the corpoation appointed by the Parliament. To cloathe the naked, feed the hungry, instruct the ignorant, imploy the idle. Which pious and excellent designe, is encouraged by the Christian care, liberality, and appointment of the Honourable House of Parliament, and Councell of State. In giving two houses, and assigning a stock towards the promotion of the work. / By S:H: a well-wisher to the poores comfort, and the nations prosperity. Septemb. 3. 1649. Imprimatur, John Downame.
Samuel HartlibDate: 1649
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A girl sits by the dying embers of a fire on the floor in a Highland hut; a baby is asleep in the crib behind her. Mezzotint by Edward Burton after William Simson.
William SimsonDate: [1849]Reference: 36008i
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A man with one foot moves with crutches accompanied by a little girl wearing a hat and her arm in a sling. Engraving with etching by P. Quast.
Pieter QuastReference: 43851i

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The children of the poor : representations of childhood since the seventeenth century / Hugh Cunningham.

Shaftesbury Society (Ragged Union School) ... : season 1922 / Arthur Black, general secretary.

A man with a wooden leg plays the violin while his wife and children accompany him with a song. Coloured lithograph.

A poor family praying before eating their simple evening meal. Mezzotint by W. Baillie, 1784, after A. Ostade.

Malnourished children of the rural poor : the web of food, health, education, fertility, and agricultural production / Judith B. Balderston, Alan B. Wilson, Maria E. Freire, Mari S. Simonen of the Berkeley Project on Educatioon and Nutrition ; with forewords by Charles S. Benson, Sheldon Margen.

A poor Savoyard woman surrounded by her children, one of whom she is breast-feeding. Engraving by N. de Larmessin III, 1746, after J.B.M. Pierre.

Parents and children in the inner city / Harriett Wilson and G. W. Herbert ; with a contribution on incomes by John Veit Wilson.

A woman breastfeeding her baby and looking after two small children in a rural setting. Engraving.

A sailor on a quay side with one arm in a sling holds out his other hand as if to push away the small beggar boy who is asking for help. Engraving by W. Chevalier, ca. 1840, after H. Brooke.

Growing up and getting by : international perspectives on childhood and youth in hard times / edited by John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson and Sarah Marie Hall.

A dispensary in the East End of London: crowds of local children are being vaccinated. Wood engraving by E. Buckman, 1871.

A girl in bed in a slum dwelling, Liverpool. Photograph by Thurston Hopkins, 1955.

A very poor looking girl, sitting on a rock, is approached by a well-dressed girl who offers buns from the basket in her hand. Colour wood engraving after H. Tidey, 1867.

Poor children of Shoreditch provided with free dinners. Halftone after W.D. Almond, 1888.

A farmer is watching a poor girl who is picking up small ears of corn; in the background is an expensive country house. Engraving by J.M. Delatre, 1788, after J.H. Ramberg.

A one-legged man in rags moving with the aid of crutches is accompanied by a child with a bandaged arm. Gouache on vellum.

Inquiry into the treatment, condition and mortality of infant children in the workhouse of the North Dublin Union.

A veiled woman, kneeling, begs a young man for alms; her three sick children at her feet. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.

An old man with a wooden leg and a stick is accompanied by a girl carrying a bowl in her right hand. Etching by Jules Jacques Veyrassat.

A girl sits by the dying embers of a fire on the floor in a Highland hut; a baby is asleep in the crib behind her. Mezzotint by Edward Burton after William Simson.

A man with one foot moves with crutches accompanied by a little girl wearing a hat and her arm in a sling. Engraving with etching by P. Quast.