Housing Collection

The Devils Acre - Westminster, 1872. Creator: Gustave Doré
The Devils Acre-Westminster, 1872. Devils Acre, a Victorian slum near Westminster Abbey had a high rate of mortality from diseases such as typhoid. From, " LONDON

German Renaissance ceiling and wall painting, wood mosaic and embroidery, (1898). Creator: Unknown
German Renaissance ceiling and wall painting, wood mosaic and embroidery, (1898). Fig 1: Wall-painting from the bath-rooms in the Fugger-house at Augsburg

Hatfield from the Railway Station, 1898. Creator: Unknown
Hatfield from the Railway Station, 1898. From " Our Own Country, Volume II". [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, 1898]

A mother getting the children ready for a neighborhood birthday party, Washington, D. C. 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. A mother getting the children ready for a neighborhood birthday party

Mother and her daughter, Frederick Douglass housing project, Anacostia, D. C. 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Anacostia, D.C. Frederick Douglass housing project. Mother and her daughter

View of the Merchant Taylors Almshouses on Lee High Road, Lewisham, London, 1826

Housing project, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, 1962. Artist: Michael Walters
Housing project, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, 1962. This housing development in Kirby Street in the South Yorkshire town of Mexborough is a good example of the failed 1960s housing ethos

New Lanark Mills, Scotland, c1815. Robert Owens (1771-1858) model community of cotton mills and housing. Educational facilities were provided, as well as the worlds first day nursery

The "Adam and Eve", Old Chelsea, 1879. Creator: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
The "Adam and Eve", Old Chelsea, 1879.

Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, c1830-32. Creator: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, c1830-32. The row of houses on the left provides a counterpoint to the monumental structure on the right--the Castel Sant'Angelo

Children playing, 1879. Creator: Catherine Greenaway
Children playing, 1879.

Rue Gubernatis, Nice, 1920-1935. Creator: Frederick Marriott
Rue Gubernatis, Nice, 1920-1935. A street in central Nice, in the South of France. We look down the steep streetscape, with lots of figures moving about, including two with a pushcart

Views of Amsterdam. Plate 3. De Meulende Blaeu brugh, 1663-1690. Creator: Abraham Blooteling
Views of Amsterdam. Plate 3. De Meulende Blaeu brugh, 1663-1690. Depicting the windmill near the Blauwbrug in Amsterdam.

Vue prise dans le port de Dieppe (View of the port of Dieppe), c.1771. Creator: Marie-Jeanne Ozanne
Vue prise dans le port de Dieppe (View of the port of Dieppe), c.1771.

British coal strike - Llwynpia, South Wales. A colliery village., between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
British coal strike - Llwynpia, South Wales. A colliery village., between c1910 and c1915. Shows the town of Llwynypia, Wales.

New York's streets, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
New York's streets, 1911. Shows a horse-drawn garbage wagon with its load dumped in the street during a New York City garbage strike, Nov. 8-11, 1911.

Bridge At Chatou, c1875. Creator: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Bridge At Chatou, c1875.

Colombia Market, Bethnal-Green, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Colombia Market, Bethnal-Green, [London], 1865. 'The new market [financed by Angela Burdett-Coutts]...will be quadrangular...The west side is nearly completed

Old Pensioners leaving Greenwich Hospital, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Old Pensioners leaving Greenwich Hospital, [London], 1865. Naval veterans left the Royal Hospital '...in search of the consolations which only social

The new hospital for French Protestants, Victoria Park, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The new hospital for French Protestants, Victoria Park, [London], 1865. 'The style adopted is the old French chateau style...It is built of ornamental brickwork

Sheffield, from the Langsett Road, showing the suburbs that were flooded..., 1864. Creator: Unknown
Sheffield, from the Langsett Road, showing the suburbs that were flooded - from a sketch by our special artist, 1864. 'View of Sheffield, taken from the Langsett Road

Refuge for the aged at Auteuil, near Paris, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
Refuge for the aged at Auteuil, near Paris, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by M. Felix Thorigny. The institution of St. Perine...is "an asylum where misfortune meets at the same time with

Improvised homes in ruined France, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Improvised homes in ruined France, between c1915 and 1918. Men, women and children, outside wood shacks during World War I in France

Fort Slocum, Shacks built for draft men, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Fort Slocum, Shacks built for draft men, 1917. Housing built for soldiers at Fort Slocum, a military post on Davids Island, New Rochelle, New York

On the Sim River near the Asha-Balashovskii Station, 1910. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
On the Sim River near the Asha-Balashovskii Station, 1910

City of Cherdyn, 1910. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
City of Cherdyn, 1910

View of Kasli, 1910. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
View of Kasli, 1910

Razgulay, outskirts of the city of Perm, 1910. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Razgulay, outskirts of the city of Perm, 1910

City of Tobolsk from the northeast; in the distance one can see the confluence... 1912
City of Tobolsk from the northeast; in the distance one can see the confluence of the Tobol and Irtysh Rivers, 1912

City of Vladimir, on the Kliazma;view from the Assumption Cathedral from the southwest, 1911

General view of Rostov [Velikii] from the bell tower of the Church of All Saints, 1911

General view of Novaia Ufa, 1910. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
General view of Novaia Ufa, 1910

View of the city of Tobolsk from Assumption Cathedral from the northwest, 1912

The Cotton Famine: dwellings of Manchester operatives, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: dwellings of Manchester operatives, 1862. Starvation and destitution among unemployed Lancashire textiles workers. No

Dam's slender abutment and part of the finished sill, Beloomut, 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Dam's slender abutment and part of the finished sill, Beloomut, 1912. A uniformed man standing near a dam abutment, more men posed in background

Chinese quarter of the Chincha Islands, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Chinese quarter of the Chincha Islands, [Peru], 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Oswald Younghusband of the quarter inhabited by Chinese labourers employed in the guano trade

General View of the Village of Cherga, 1911-1913. Creator: Sergei Ivanovich Borisov
General View of the Village of Cherga, 1911-1913. From a collection of color postcards of the Altay, or Altai, Mountains region of southern Siberia early in the 20th century

View of the city of Tobolsk from the north, from the bell tower of the Church... 1912
View of the city of Tobolsk from the north, from the bell tower of the Church of the Transfiguration, 1912. View of Tobol'sk from the Bell Tower of the Church of the Transfiguration

Kazakh on a Camel with Yurts in the Background, Valley of the Arakan River, a Tributary... 1911-13
Kazakh on a Camel with Yurts in the Background, Valley of the Arakan River, a Tributary of the Chernaia Berel River, 1911-1913

Street in the Village of Chyorny Anuy; Russian Children, 1911-1913. Creator: Sergei Ivanovich Borisov
Street in the Village of Chyorny Anuy; Russian Children, 1911-1913. From a collection of color postcards of the Altay, or Altai, Mountains region of southern Siberia early in the 20th century

New Almshouses at Watford erected by the Salters Company of London, 1864. Creator: Unknown
New Almshouses at Watford erected by the Salters Company of London, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. F. Downer. The original premises were burnt down in the Great Fire of 1666

Burning of Vise, Aug 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Burning of Vise, Aug 1914. Ruins in Vise´, Belgium, after destruction of town by German forces during World War I

Yurt. Selkups, 1920. Creator: A. G. Vargin
Yurt. Selkups, 1920. V. I. Surikov Museum of Art in Krasnoiarsk

Birch bark yurt. Selkups, 1920. Creator: A. G. Vargin
Birch bark yurt. Selkups, 1920. V. I. Surikov Museum of Art in Krasnoiarsk

Labaz. Selkups, 1920. Creator: A. G. Vargin
Labaz. Selkups, 1920. V. I. Surikov Museum of Art in Krasnoiarsk

Plague in the forest, Selkups, 1920. Creator: A. G. Vargin
Plague in the forest, Selkups, 1920. V. I. Surikov Museum of Art in Krasnoiarsk

A yurt of two halves. Selkups, 1920. Creator: A. G. Vargin
A yurt of two halves. Selkups, 1920. V. I. Surikov Museum of Art in Krasnoiarsk

Yurt on the Duolgolakh River, unknown date. Creator: Nikolaj Dmitrievic Travin
Yurt on the Duolgolakh River, unknown date. From a collection of travel sketches created in the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic during the 1920s-1930s

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