Poor Relief Collection

A.I.C.P., Miss Bruere's Women Workers, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
A.I.C.P., Miss Bruere's Women Workers, 1917 or 1918. Women workers at the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, New York City, probably during World War I.

The Graphic Statistical Maps of Ireland; Pauperism 1884, 1886. Creator: Unknown
The Graphic Statistical Maps of Ireland; Pauperism 1884, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

Social welfare protects mother and child, Germany, 1936. Women making up bundles of clothes to assist the Mother and Child institution, set up to maintain healthy family conditions

Farm bread being sent to the poor people in the city, Germany, 1936. Three young girls pick out loaves of bread from a cart decorated with Nazi flags

The poor enjoying a one-dish meal to the strains of music, Germany, 1936. A band in uniform play to poor people sitting along benches waiting for a free meal

Capitain Thomas Coram, 1740. Artist: William Hogarth
Capitain Thomas Coram, 1740. The philanthropist Thomas Coram (1668-1751) founded the Foundling Hospital after seeing the plight of children left abandoned in the streets

Children waiting for free meals, London, c1900 (1901). From Living London, Vol. 1, edited by George R. Sims. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1901]

St Elizabeth of Hungary giving alms to a beggar, 18th century. After the death in 1227 of her husband Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia, from plague while on crusade

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