Famine Collection

The Cotton Famine: box at Bristol for subscriptions to the distressed operatives fund, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: box at Bristol for subscriptions to the distressed operatives fund, 1862. Donations for unemployed Lancashire textiles workers

The Cotton Famine: operatives waiting for their breakfast in Mr. Chapman's courtyard..., 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: operatives waiting for their breakfast in Mr. Chapman's courtyard, Mottram, near Manchester, 1862. Unemployed mill workers. Engraving of a photograph by Mr. Gothard

The Cotton Famine: working men's dining-hall, Gaythorn cooking-depot, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: working men's dining-hall, Gaythorn cooking-depot, Manchester, 1862. Meals for unemployed Lancashire mill workers

The Cotton Famine: distributing tickets for bread, soup, meat, meal, coal etc, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: distributing tickets for bread, soup, meat, meal, coal etc, at the office of a district provident society, Manchester, 1862. From "Illustrated London News", 1862

The Cotton Famine: school for mill operatives at Mr. Stirling's mill...Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: school for mill operatives at Mr. Stirling's mill, Lower Mosley-street, Manchester, 1862. Literacy classes for unemployed Lancashire textiles workers

The Cotton Famine: provision-shop...Manchester and Salford Provident Society, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: provision-shop where goods are obtained for tickets issued by the Manchester and Salford Provident Society, 1862. Unemployment in Lancashire

The Cotton Famine: the Manchester and Salford Provident Society distributing clothing, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: the Manchester and Salford Provident Society distributing clothing, 1862. Charitable donations for unemployed Lancashire textiles workers

The Cotton Famine: operatives reading the latest news from America in Camp-field free library, 1862 Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: operatives reading the latest news from America in Camp-field free library, Manchester, 1862. Unemployed Lancashire textiles workers reading newspaper accounts of the American

The Cotton Famine: the Society of Friends' soup-kitchen...Lower Moseley-street, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: the Society of Friends' soup-kitchen, Ball-street, Lower Moseley-street, Manchester, 1862. Unemployed Lancashire textiles workers queue for food

The Cotton Famine: group of mill operatives at Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: group of mill operatives at Manchester, 1862. Lancashire Textile workers. 'The Carder's business is to see that machinery is kept in perfect working order...The Jack Tenter

The Cotton Famine: meeting of the central relief committee...Manchester townhall..., 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: meeting of the central relief committee in the mayor's parlour at the Manchester townhall - Earl Derby in the chair, 1862

The Cotton Famine: waiting-room at the district provident institution, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: waiting-room at the district provident institution, Manchester, 1862. View of '...the antechamber to the kitchen...Here the distribution [of soup to unemployed Lancashire

The Cotton Famine: making up parcels of clothing at the industrial institution, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: making up parcels of clothing at the industrial institution, Manchester, 1862. 'Our Artist has made a sketch of that portion of the building where the bales are received in

The Cotton Famine: receiving clothes at Bridewell Hospital...for the distressed operatives, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: receiving clothes at Bridewell Hospital, London, for the distressed operatives, 1862. '[In Lancashire]

The Cotton Famine: distributing coal at the Castle-field old coal-wharf, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: distributing coal at the Castle-field old coal-wharf, Manchester, 1862. Charity for unemployed Lancashire textiles workers

The Cotton Famine: shop for mill-hands at Mr. Birley's mill, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: shop for mill-hands at Mr. Birley's mill, Manchester, 1862. Charity for unemployed Lancashire textiles workers. 'Mr

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

The Cotton Famine: the sewing-class at the Manchester...Provident Society's rooms, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: the sewing-class at the Manchester and Salford Provident Society's rooms, 1862. Unemployed Lancashire textiles workers

Employment of Lancashire operatives, under the Public Works Act..., Blackburn, 1864. Creator: Frederick John Skill
Employment of Lancashire operatives, under the Public Works Act, at Revidge Hill, Corporation Park, Blackburn, 1864. 'There has been no difficulty in setting the men to work

La queue au lait (The queue for milk), c.1796. Creator: Boilly, Louis-Léopold (1761-1845)
La queue au lait (The queue for milk), c.1796. Private Collection

The Poor Man's Meal, 1607. Creator: Francken, Hieronymus II
The Poor Man's Meal, 1607. Found in the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

The Poor Man's Meal, 1599-1600. Creator: Flemish master
The Poor Man's Meal, 1599-1600. Found in the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Russia Restituenda (Russia needs renewal), 1922. Creator: Mucha, Alfons Marie (1860-1939)
Russia Restituenda (Russia needs renewal), 1922. Private Collection

Revolutionary soldiers guarding the Petrograd State Bank, 1918. Creator: Anonymous
Revolutionary soldiers guarding the Petrograd State Bank, 1918. Private Collection

Sketch in a House at Fahey's Quay, Ennis - the Widow Connor and her Dying Child, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Sketch in a House at Fahey's Quay, Ennis - the Widow Connor and her Dying Child, 1850. Suffering during the Irish Potato Famine: In Ennis I went through the lanes and alleys

Great Protection Meeting in the Rotundo, Dublin, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Great Protection Meeting in the Rotundo, Dublin, 1850. The Earl of Glengall tabled a resolution: That we feel entirely persuaded of the great regard

Ruins in the Village of Carihaken, County of Galway, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Ruins in the Village of Carihaken, County of Galway, 1850. Destruction of rural homes by the levellers, during the Irish Potato Famine. The poor were blamed for their situation

Great Tenant-Right Meeting at Kilkenny, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Great Tenant-Right Meeting at Kilkenny, [Ireland], 1850. It is peculiarly the curse of Ireland, though it is also the curse of other countries

The Workhouse, Clifden, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Workhouse, Clifden, 1850. Poverty in Ireland during the Potato Famine. Clifden itself is an exotic in an unfavourable climate

Keillines, near General Thompson's Property, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Keillines, near General Thompson's Property, 1850. Poverty in Ireland during the Potato Famine. Scene...on the road between Maam and Clifden, in Joyce's County

Cabin of Pat. MacNamara, Village of Clear, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Cabin of Pat. MacNamara, Village of Clear, 1850. Destruction of rural homes by the levellers, during the Irish Potato Famine. The poor were blamed for their situation

The Village of Killard, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Village of Killard, [Ireland], 1850....Killard forms part of the Union of Kilrush, and possesses an area of 17, 022 acres

The Embankment, Waterloo Docks, Liverpool, 1850. Creator: Smyth
The Embankment, Waterloo Docks, Liverpool, 1850. Emigrants leaving Britain for the colonies: United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia or New Zealand

The International Exhibition: the piping bullfinch in the Swiss Court, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: the piping bullfinch in the Swiss Court, 1862. The success of this little vocalist is the more remarkable as his part is always a solo...and in precisely the same

Volunteer review and fete at Shrubland Hall, near Ipswich... 1862. Creator: Unknown
Volunteer review and fete at Shrubland Hall, near Ipswich. [Suffolk], the seat of Sir George Broke-Middleton, 1862. It occurred to Sir George

The Late Alexis Soyer, 1858. Creator: Unknown
The Late Alexis Soyer, 1858. French chef. M. Soyer...was apprenticed to Douix, the celebrated chef de cuisine who "reigned" in the time of Charles X

The Irish Question, 1880s. Creator: De Scott Evans
The Irish Question, 1880s. Two potatoes suspended by a string; the title may refer to the troubled status of the Irish in the late 19th century

Sketch for the Saint-Sulpice church: Saint Louis buries the plague victims in Damietta, Between 1864 and 1870. Found in the Collection of the Petit Palais, Musee des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

Potato queue, 1916. Creator: Zille, Heinrich (1858-1929)
Potato queue, 1916. Private Collection

Revolutionary sailors guarding the Petrograd State Bank, 1927. Found in the collection of State Central Military Museum, Moscow

Get vaccinated against cholera, 1920. Creator: Ivanov, Sergey Ivanovich (1885-1942)
Get vaccinated against cholera, 1920. Found in the collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Juno sending famine against Crasiton, set within an elaborate frame, from Loves, Rages and Jealousies of Juno, 1531-76

Riders of the Apocalypse I, 1911. Creator: Kandinsky, Wassily Vasilyevich (1866-1944)
Riders of the Apocalypse I, 1911. Found in the collection of Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

The Plague, 1898. Creator: Bocklin, Arnold (1827-1901)
The Plague, 1898. Found in the collection of Art Museum Basel

Saint John sees the Four Horsemen, from the Apocalyspe. n. d. Creator: Jean Duvet
Saint John sees the Four Horsemen, from the Apocalyspe.n.d

Plate 51 from The Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra): Thanks to the millet. (Gracias a la almorta.), 1811-12 (published 1863)

Francesco I d Este Assists His Subjects with Great Generosity During the Great Famine of 1648 and 1649, from L Idea di un Principe ed Eroe Cristiano in Francesco I d Este

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, ca. 1497 / 1498. Creator: Albrecht Durer
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, ca. 1497/1498

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