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

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

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

Ostyatsky village Olenyi yurts, 1928. Creator: Dmitrii Innokent'evich Karatanov
Ostyatsky village Olenyi yurts, 1928. V. I. Surikov Museum of Art in Krasnoiarsk

The Outskirts of the Town, 1899. Creator: Eugène Jansson
The Outskirts of the Town, 1899

View over the Oude Schans on the Montelbaanstoren, 1870-1923. Creator: Willem Witsen
View over the Oude Schans on the Montelbaanstoren, 1870-1923

Street with Figure, 1936. Creator: Erik Raadal
Street with Figure, 1936

Water-tank in St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Water-tank in St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, [London], 1858. There are certain portions of London where the buildings are dilapidated and most of the inhabitants squalid...It should, however

Improvements in Calcutta: The Dunkin Bustee, in Chowringhee, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Improvements in Calcutta: The Dunkin Bustee, in Chowringhee, 1860. Europeans in India. The Calcutta Municipality has commenced clearing the European, quarter of the town from its native inmates

Kambara, c1838. Creator: Utagawa Kunisada
Kambara, c1838. From Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido with Beauties

The Albert Wing of the Licensed Victuallers Asylum, Old Kent-Road, 1858. Creator: Unknown
The Albert Wing of the Licensed Victuallers Asylum, Old Kent-Road, [London], 1858. The existing buildings comprise the habitations for 126 inmates, to which the new Albert Wing, when completed

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

Close No. 101 High Street (#8), Printed 1900. Creator: Thomas Annan
Close No. 101 High Street (#8), Printed 1900

Close No. 115 High Street (#7), Printed 1900. Creator: Thomas Annan
Close No. 115 High Street (#7), Printed 1900

Close No. 118 High Street (#6), Printed 1900. Creator: Thomas Annan
Close No. 118 High Street (#6), Printed 1900

Close No. 148 High Street (#5), Printed 1900. Creator: Thomas Annan
Close No. 148 High Street (#5), Printed 1900

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