Hardship 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

Marshall Ney during the retreat from Russia, (1812) 1894
Marshal Ney during the retreat from Russia, (1812) 1894. Napoleon left Michel Ney in command of the rearguard during the epic retreat from the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812

The Siege of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad, 1891. Artist: Vasily Vereshchagin
The Siege of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad, 1891. The Trinity Lavra of St Sergius was founded in Sergiyev Posad (Zagorsk), Russia, in 1345 by St Sergius of Radonezh

The Silver Age, 1527. Artist: Lucas Cranach the Elder
The Silver Age, 1527. Aportrayal of the second of the four Ages of the World from Ovids poem. Found in the collection of the Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, Weimar, Germany

Shipwreck of the Meduse, 1820. Creators: Theodore Gericault, Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet
Shipwreck of the Meduse, 1820. [The Raft of the Medusa]

Portrait of a Girl, about 1665. Creator: Carlo Dolci
Portrait of a Girl, about 1665

Visit to the Peasants, c1580-1630. Creator: Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Visit to the Peasants, c1580-1630

Two Female Heads and Torso of a Warrior, 1620-1623. Creator: Jacob Jordaens I
Two Female Heads and Torso of a Warrior, 1620-1623

Malvina, c1910. Creator: Jakob Smits
Malvina, c1910

Adam and Eve Working: The Sacrifice of Cain and Abel; Weltchronik, about 1400-1410

Paying money to kago-ya, about 1873-1883. Creator: Shinichi Suzuki I
Paying money to kago-ya, about 1873-1883. A man standing on the right, extending a small piece of paper to a man kneeling on the left

Children with fuel for sale, about 1873-1883. Creator: Shinichi Suzuki I
Children with fuel for sale, about 1873-1883. Two girls, one standing and one sitting, with bundles of sticks

Group of Children, 1870s-1890s. Creator: Kusakabe Kimbei
Group of Children, 1870s-1890s. A group of children next to a wall overlooking the ocean

Group in the Street, 1866-1867. Creator: Felice Beato
Group in the Street, 1866-1867. Group portrait of men, women, and children

The Seamstress, Half-Length Portrait (The Working Woman), 1927

Study of Three Male Figures Lying on a Bank, c1820s. Creator: David Cox the Elder
Study of Three Male Figures Lying on a Bank, c1820s

Old woman, 1896. Creator: Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Old woman, 1896

Lieutenant Shackleton giving his lecture before the Royal Geographical Society
Power And Meat: Ponies On Which The Furthest South Party Lived

Queen Louise on the flight to Memel, 5 January 1807, (1936). Creator: Unknown
Queen Louise on the flight to Memel, 5 January 1807, (1936). Konigin Luise Auf Der Flucht Nach Memel, 5 Januar 1807

St. Francis of Assisi Takes the Lady Poverty To Be His Bride, c1930. Creator: Unknown
St. Francis of Assisi Takes the Lady Poverty To Be His Bride, c1930

A blind hurdy-gurdy player and family receiving alms, 1648

Beggar with a wooden leg, c.1630. Creator: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Beggar with a wooden leg, c.1630

Beggar in a high cap, standing and leaning on a stick, c.1629

Peasant family on the tramp, c.1652. Creator: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Peasant family on the tramp, c.1652

Old beggar woman with a gourd, c.1629. Creator: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Old beggar woman with a gourd, c.1629. Enveloped in partial darkness and clad in ragged clothes, the old beggar woman turns away from the viewer

The strolling musicians, c.1635. Creator: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
The strolling musicians, c.1635. A sympathetic inquiry into the lives of impoverished people, including beggars

Dalecarlian peasant (Lavards Anders), 1919. Creator: Anders Leonard Zorn
Dalecarlian peasant (Lavards Anders), 1919

Beggar with two crutches, 1632. Creator: Jan Georg van Vliet
Beggar with two crutches, 1632. A beggar, seen from behind, moves, in what looks like a painful fashion, with the aid of two wooden crutches

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

Poor in North France fed from German field kitchen, between c1914 and c1915. Crowd of mostly women and children outside a brick building in northern France during World War I

Belgian Refugees, at Bergen-op-zoom, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Belgian Refugees, at Bergen-op-zoom, between c1914 and c1915. Belgian refugees and the Bergen Op Zoom refugee camp in the Netherlands during World War I

Into the water, c.1919. Creator: Zille, Heinrich (1858-1929)
Into the water, c.1919. Private Collection

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: the Society of Friends soup-kitchen, Ball-street, Lower Moseley-street, Manchester, 1862. Unemployed Lancashire textiles workers queue for food

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

Portrait male model, c1660. Creator: Samuel van Hoogstraten
Portrait male model, c1660

Old Woman in Red Cap, 1852-1866. Creator: Paul Gavarni
Old Woman in Red Cap, 1852-1866

Peasant Woman with Two Young Children, 1852-1866. Creator: Paul Gavarni
Peasant Woman with Two Young Children, 1852-1866

Old Woman, 1852-1866. Creator: Paul Gavarni
Old Woman, 1852-1866

Wharf Rat, mid 19th century. Creator: Alfred Jacob Miller
Wharf Rat, mid 19th century

Close No. 193 High Street (#9), Printed 1900. Creator: Thomas Annan
Close No. 193 High Street (#9), Printed 1900

Woodcutter Kneeling before a Forest Shrine, c1865. Creator: James Crawford Thom
Woodcutter Kneeling before a Forest Shrine, c1865

Close No. 11 Bridgegate (#43), Printed 1900. Creator: Thomas Annan
Close No. 11 Bridgegate (#43), Printed 1900

Misery, c1855. Creator: Paul Gavarni
Misery, c1855

White-Haired Lapp, Kvikkjokk, c1900s. Creator: Helmer Osslund
White-Haired Lapp, Kvikkjokk, c1900s

The Dark Hours of Italy; Women and children of Friuli and Carnia fleeing the horrors of the invasion, 1917

The Dark Hours of Italy; Detachment of infantry, exhausted, resting under protection from cavalry patrols, 1917

The Dark Hours of Italy; Exhausted by a forced march which saved them from encirclement
The Dark Hours of Italy; Exhaisted by a forced march which saved them from encirclement, the men of a column of the 2nd Army fell asleep at the camp, 1917

The Dark Hours of Italy; One of the Tagliamento bridges during the retreat, October 31, 1917, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

The Dark Hours of Italy; Refugees from Friuli in a square in Brescia, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

Portrait of an elderly woman, full face, unknown date. Creator: Anon
Portrait of an elderly woman, full face, unknown date

Blind man with girl, begging on the side of a country road, 1803-1861

Old Vennel Off High Street (#2), Printed 1900. Creator: Thomas Annan
Old Vennel Off High Street (#2), Printed 1900

Costumes de Différents Pays, Lazarons
Costumes de Differents Pays, Lazarons, ou Mendiants Napolitains, c1797

Interior of a Port, 1833. Creators: Thomas McLean, Eugene Isabey
Interior of a Port, 1833. From Six Marines

Nasurethur-Chipewyan, 1926. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Nasurethur-Chipewyan, 1926

L'hiver au pays du charbon; L'Iiustration du 11 janvier 1919, 1919. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

Le calvaire des six cents otages; Vue interieure de la grange de Milejgany ou furent parques plus de 450 otages; la neige entrait par la porte qu'il fallait laisser ouverte pour voir clair, 1918

Le calvaire des six cents otages; Etable de Milejgany, pres de Zosie, ou cent cinquante otages demeurerent sans feu, pendant une semaine, par plus de 20 degres de froid, 1918

An old woman "Bette Dorte" on the heath, 1904

Les manifestations contre "la vie chere" en Hollande; camionnage de pommes de terre sous la garde de soldats hollandais, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

Les manifestations contre "la vie chere" en Hollande; manifestation faminine a Amsterdam contre la cherte de la vie, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

The Neva at St Petersburg (Leningrad) in the Winter, 1844. Creator: Theodor Hildebrandt
The Neva at St Petersburg (Leningrad) in the Winter, 1844

Queue of people waiting, c.1890-c.1920. Creator: Isaac Lazerus Israels
Queue of people waiting, c.1890-c.1920

Clothing the Naked, c.1646-c.1649. Creator: Michiel Sweerts
Clothing the Naked, c.1646-c.1649

Refreshing the Thirsty, c.1646-c.1649. Creator: Michiel Sweerts
Refreshing the Thirsty, c.1646-c.1649

Feeding the Hungry, 1646-1649. Creator: Michiel Sweerts
Feeding the Hungry, 1646-1649

A Girl and a Boy with a Braizer. (Allegory of "Winter"), 1655-1660

Sa bonne humeur:"T'en fais pas, dans quelques jours, y aura du caillebotis!", 1915. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

L'annee De Verdun; Un Autre Hiver, Les miseres du soldat: un mauvais boyau en Artois, 1915. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

Tater woman with her child on the heath, 1854-1917. Creator: Hans Smidth
Tater woman with her child on the heath, 1854-1917

Dans La Tranchee; La sonnette d'alarme, 1915. Creator: Unknown
Dans La Tranchee; La sonnette d'alarme, 1915. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1926]

Migratory cotton picker with her baby, 1939. Creator: Unknown
Migratory cotton picker with her baby, 1939

Cotton field, Georgia, 1911. Creator: Unknown
Cotton field, Georgia, 1911

Some of my informants, 1926. Creator: Unknown
Some of my informants, 1926

Nutmeg, red flannel and silver, 1926. Creator: Unknown
Nutmeg, red flannel and silver, 1926

A subject for Mission work, 1907. Creator: Unknown
A subject for Mission work, 1907

African American children sitting on the stairs in front of their house, 1922

A cabin home, 1907. Creator: Unknown
A cabin home, 1907

Southern slaves at their daily toil, 1925. Creator: Unknown
Southern slaves at their daily toil, 1925

A street in Baltimore well known to charity workers, 1905. Creator: Unknown
A street in Baltimore well known to charity workers, 1905

Where Fighting Mag lived, 1905. Creator: Unknown
Where Fighting Mag lived, 1905

A stitch in time saves nine, 1902. Creator: Unknown
A stitch in time saves nine, 1902

Uncle Harmon Vann, 104 years old, Huntsville, Ala. 1898. Creator: Collins
Uncle Harmon Vann, 104 years old, Huntsville, Ala. 1898

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