M0013538EB: Illustration of child apprentices outside a textile factory

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Child apprentices in textile factory.

Photograph of a wood engraving depicting child apprentices eating from a pig trough outside a textile factory. This reproduction was made from Trollope, F: Life and adventures of Michael Armstrong, the factory boy, London: 1840.

July 1954

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.