Rent Collection

Rent Day, c1584-1638. Artist: Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Rent Day, c1584-1638. From the Burghley House Collection, Lincolnshire

"Pit and tools for rent--work on your own", U. S. 99, Fresno County, California, 1939
U.S. 99. Fresno County. " Pit and tools for rent--work on your own." California. [ Garage; Electric Welding ]

The Rent Receiver's Office, 1514. Creator: Jan Massys
The Rent Receiver's Office, 1514

Je ne loue pas aux gens qui ont des enfants!, 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
Je ne loue pas aux gens qui ont des enfants!, 1847. I don't rent to people with children! An elderly landlady, surrounded by pets

Un locataire qui doit trois termes, 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
Un locataire qui doit trois termes, 1847. A tenant who is behind with his rent. (Landlord looks annoyed as embarassed tenant raises hat). From Locataires et proprietaires, no. 20

Oh! Quant à la vue, vous ne trouverez pas mieux qu'ici!, 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
Oh! Quant a la vue, vous ne trouverez pas mieux qu'ici!, 1847. Landlord to prospective tenant standing on a chair to look out of the skylight: Oh

Un locataire qui a eu un oubli le 1er janvier, 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
Un locataire qui a eu un oubli le 1er janvier, 1847. A tenant who forgot something on January 1st. [Landlady brushing dust towards tenant who has neglected to pay his rent

Un locataire qui paye exactement son terme, 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
Un locataire qui paye exactement son terme, 1847. A tenant who pays his rent right on time. (Landlord stands aside out of politeness). From Locataires et proprietaires, no. 21

Je ne loue pas aux gens qui ont des enfants!... 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
Je ne loue pas aux gens qui ont des enfants!... 1847. I don't rent to people with children! An elderly landlady, surrounded by pets

Brigand de Propriétaire qui ne veut me faire faire des reparations qu'au beau temps... 1847
Brigand de Proprietaire qui ne veut me faire faire des reparations qu'au beau temps!, 1847. The landlord is a real robber...he chooses to make roof repairs only during good weather

De ce côté-là, vous voyez la tour St. Jacques... 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
De ce cote-la, vous voyez la tour St. Jacques... 1847. De ce cote-la vous voyez la tour St. Jacques la Boucherie!...(And from here you can see the tower of St. Jacques the Butcher!)

Ce logement est un peu cher, pour la place Royale... 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Ce logement est un peu cher, pour la place Royale... 1844. - 'Ce logement est un peu cher, pour la place Royale... - Un peu cher...un peu cher...mais je vois ai deja dit que de cette fenetre vous

Déménagé !... et pour me payer trois termes... il me laisse... 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
Demenage !... et pour me payer trois termes... il me laisse... 1847. Landlord whose tenant has moved out. From Locataires et proprietaires, no. 5

Cartoon about rent increases brought in by the Commune of Paris, 1871, (c.1871). Creator: Leo Scherer
Cartoon about rent increases brought in by the Commune of Paris, 1871, (c.1871). A bewildered and furious tenant is presented with news of rent increases

The "Strand Buildings" (Model Lodging-House) to be erected in Eagle-Court, 1857. Creator: Unknown
The "Strand Buildings" (Model Lodging-House) to be erected in Eagle-Court, [London], 1857. A philanthropic effort is now being made to provide the operative classes with a superior

The Tenant Farmer's Rent, 1660-1668. Creator: Gerritsz Quiringh van Brekelenkam
The Tenant Farmer's Rent, 1660-1668

A louer, logements de garçon entre le... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
A louer, logements de garcon entre le... 19th century. Tenants and landlords - For rent. Accommodation... between the Pont Neuf and the Pont des Arts

2.000 fr...sans écurie...ça ne me convient pas!, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
2.000 francs...sans ecurie...ca ne me convient pas!, 19th century. Parisians. Prospective tenant complains to landlady: 2, 000 francs with no stable - that won't suit me at all

Slums of San Francisco, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Slums of San Francisco, California

Skid Row, Howard Street, San Francisco, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Skid Row. Howard Street, San Francisco, California

Migratory family from Louisiana on Works Progress Administration (WPA), California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory family from Louisiana, been in California eighteen months now on Works Progress Administration (WPA), receives fifty-five dollars a month

Tenants rent strike, Peckham, south east London, 1931, (1933). Creator: Unknown
Tenants rent strike, Peckham, south east London, 1931, (1933). Peckham was the scene of an extensive " war" during the November of 1931

Sign on camp site opposite potato packing sheds, Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sign on camp site opposite potato packing sheds. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. [ Notice - Camping on these Grounds permitted only by permit from Chief of Police. City of Tulelake

Possibly: Family living in shacktown community, mostly from... Washington, Yakima Valley, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
[Untitled, possibly related to: Family living in shacktown community, mostly from Kansas and Missouri. This family has five children, oldest in third grade. Rent seven dollars per month, no plumbing

Family living in shacktown community, mostly from Kansas and... Washington, Yakima Valley, 1939
Family living in shacktown community, mostly from Kansas and Missouri. This family has five children, oldest in third grade. Rent seven dollars per month, no plumbing

U. S. 99, Fresno County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
U.S. 99. Fresno County, California. " Pit and tools for rent--work on your own." California. [ Garage; Electric Welding; Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco - Treat Yourself to the Best ]

Detail on main street of Nyssa, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Detail on main street of Nyssa, Oregon. [Signs: IGA (Independent Grocers Alliance) member - Home Store Owned by Home Folks; Pork Roast - 18 cents per lb; Beef Boil - 10 cents per lb; Cauliflower - 5

A sign offering apartments for rent, 61st Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues, New York, 1938. Creator: Walker Evans
New York, New York. 61st Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues. A sign offering apartments for rent

Boardinghouse, Alabama, 1936. Creator: Walker Evans
Boardinghouse, Alabama. [Signs: Morris Hotel; Rooms 50c Up; Family Style Meals 35c 40c; Room and Board $ 30.00 per Mo(nth).']

Tenant farm rental sign, Alabama, 1936. Creator: Walker Evans
Tenant farm rental sign, Alabama. [ Lunch Room - For Rent: One Horse Farms; Two Horse Farms; 1 House & Filling Station; See Mrs Tipton... ]

Anti-rent insurrection - attack on the Sheriff of Albany, 1844. Creator: Smyth
Anti-rent insurrection - attack on the Sheriff of Albany, 1844. White settlers demand payment from indigenous Americans, with consequences:the Sheriff himself was held down in a ditch

Steward, September 10, 1799. September 10, 1799. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Steward, September 10, 1799

Signing the New Lease, 1868, (c1930). Creator: Erskine Nicol
Signing the New Lease, 1868, (c1930). A tenant, still wearing his coat, signs papers for a property in the presence of an estate agent. Painting in the New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester

Tenant Paying Rent, 1523, (1903). From Social England, Volume III, edited by H.D. Traill, D.C.L. and J. S. Mann, M.A. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1903]

Paying rent in Saxon times, (c1920). Artist: Ernest Prater
Paying rent in Saxon times, (c1920). Illustration from Story of the British Nation, Volume I, by Walter Hutchinson, (London, c1920s)

Alan Middleton, collector of rents, 15th century, (1910). Alan Middleton, a collector of rents for a monastery, wears bag sleeves, and has a penner and ink-horn hanging from his girdle

The Collector of Tithes, 1618. Artist: Pieter Brueghel the Younger
The Collector of Tithes, 1618. Private collection

Roman relief of a tax-collector
Roman relief of a man counting collected rent and taxes

Rint v Potatoes - The Irish Jeremy Diddler, 1845. Daniel O Connell (1775-1847), Irish political leader, continued to collect repeal rents to fund the Home Rule movement while the Irish poor were

Mammons Rents, 1883. The housing conditions of a poor labouring family, partly caused by high rents. Landlords were making up to 50% on their investments in already condemned properties

Irish peasant girl guarding the familys last few possessions, 1886
Irish peasant girl guarding the familys last few possessions after eviction for non-payment of rent. From The Illustrated London News, April 1886. Wood engraving

Evicted Irish peasant family, 1848. Irish peasant family unable to pay rent because of failure of potato crop due to blight, evicted from their tumbledown cottage

Mammons Rents!, 1883. Artist: Joseph Swain
Mammons Rents!, 1883. A rent collector has come to collect the weeks payment from one of Londons poorest families. The well-fed

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