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Background imageSocial Class Collection: Woman Reading a Letter, c.1663. Creator: Jan Vermeer

Woman Reading a Letter, c.1663. Creator: Jan Vermeer
Woman Reading a Letter, c.1663. Other Title(s): Woman in Blue Reading a Letter. In a quiet, private moment, a young woman stands, engrossed in reading a letter

Background imageSocial Class Collection: The latecomers, c1914. Creator: Albert Guillaume

The latecomers, c1914. Creator: Albert Guillaume
The latecomers, c1914

Background imageSocial Class Collection: The Devils Acre - Westminster, 1872. Creator: Gustave Doré

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

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Our Village, c1890, (1936). Creator: Hubert von Herkomer

Our Village, c1890, (1936). Creator: Hubert von Herkomer
Our Village, c1890, (1936). Village scene by Sir Hubert von Herkomer. (1849-1914). Oil on canvas. From " Bibbys Annual 1936", edited by Joseph Bibby. [J. Bibby & Sons, Ltd. Liverpool, 1936]

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Dutch Girl at Breakfast, c.1756. Creator: Jean-Etienne Liotard

Dutch Girl at Breakfast, c.1756. Creator: Jean-Etienne Liotard
Dutch Girl at Breakfast, c.1756

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Limehouse Dock, 1872. Creator: Gustave Doré

Limehouse Dock, 1872. Creator: Gustave Doré
Limehouse Dock, 1872. Limehouse Dock in Tower Hamlets used by seagoing vessels to offload cargo to canal barges, for onward transport along the Regents Canal. From, " LONDON

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Election Day in New York: a polling-place among the 'Lower Twenty', 1864. Creator: Unknown

Election Day in New York: a polling-place among the "Lower Twenty", 1864. Creator: Unknown
Election Day in New York: a polling-place among the "Lower Twenty", 1864. Crowds at a polling station on 8 November, '...the day of the Presidential election

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Election Day in New York: a polling-place among the 'Upper Ten', 1864. Creator: Unknown

Election Day in New York: a polling-place among the "Upper Ten", 1864. Creator: Unknown
Election Day in New York: a polling-place among the "Upper Ten", 1864. Crowds at a polling station on 8 November, '...the day of the Presidential election

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Ruins of the village of Billinghay, Lincolnshire, after the late fire, 1864. Creator: Unknown

Ruins of the village of Billinghay, Lincolnshire, after the late fire, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Ruins of the village of Billinghay, Lincolnshire, after the late fire, 1864. 'We give a View of the ruins of a part of the village of Billinghay, which was destroyed by fire on Friday

Background imageSocial Class Collection: The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: Mr. Göschen..., 1864

The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: Mr. Göschen..., 1864. Creator: Unknown
The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: Mr. Goschen, Member for the City, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by John and Charles Watkins

Background imageSocial Class Collection: The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: Lord Richard Grosvenor

The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: Lord Richard Grosvenor, 1864 Creator: Unknown
The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: Lord Richard Grosvenor, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by John and Charles Watkins

Background imageSocial Class Collection: The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: Lord Abercromby, 1864

The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: Lord Abercromby, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: Lord Abercromby, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by John and Charles Watkins

Background imageSocial Class Collection: The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: the Marquis of Sligo

The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: the Marquis of Sligo, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: the Marquis of Sligo, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by John and Charles Watkins. 'The Most Hon

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Yard Man, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service

Yard Man, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Yard Man, between c1915 and c1920.

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Otto Hue, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service

Otto Hue, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Otto Hue, between c1915 and c1920.

Background imageSocial Class Collection: The Cotton Famine: operatives waiting for their breakfast in Mr. Chapman's courtyard..., 1862

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

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Working-men's hall lately erected at Eastbourne, 1864. Creator: Unknown

Working-men's hall lately erected at Eastbourne, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Working-men's hall lately erected at Eastbourne, 1864. 'We present a View of the Workmen's Hall which has lately been built, at the expense of Mr. W

Background imageSocial Class Collection: The Cotton Famine: working men's dining-hall, Gaythorn cooking-depot, Manchester, 1862

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

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Mrs. N.E. Green & 'Caesar', between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service. Mrs. N.E

Mrs. N.E. Green & "Caesar", between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service. Mrs. N.E
Mrs. N.E. Green & "Caesar", between c1915 and 1918. Mabel E. Harlow, the wife of Edward Howland Robinson "Ned" Green with dog Caesar and sign reading: "Belgian war dog

Background imageSocial Class Collection: 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme', by the late C. R. Leslie...South Kensington Museum, 1864

"Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme", by the late C. R. Leslie...South Kensington Museum, 1864. Creator: W Thomas
"Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme", by the late C. R. Leslie, R.A., in the Sheepshanks Collection, South Kensington Museum, 1864. Engraving of a painting

Background imageSocial Class Collection: The Cotton Famine: group of mill operatives at Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown

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

Background imageSocial Class Collection: The Cotton Famine: the sewing-class at the Manchester...Provident Society's rooms, 1862

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

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Earl Russell at the opening of the North London Working-men's Exhibition, 1864. Creator: Unknown

Earl Russell at the opening of the North London Working-men's Exhibition, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Earl Russell at the opening of the North London Working-men's Exhibition, [Agricultural Hall, Islington], 1864. Foreign Secretary Russell said that the working classes of London were

Background imageSocial Class Collection: The opening of the People's Park, Farnworth, near Bolton, Lancashire, 1864. Creator: Unknown

The opening of the People's Park, Farnworth, near Bolton, Lancashire, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The opening of the People's Park, Farnworth, near Bolton, Lancashire, 1864. Chancellor of the Exchequer and future prime minister William Ewart Gladstone speaking to the crowd

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Sweden: elk-shooting in the Forest of Högtorp…, 1864

Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Sweden: elk-shooting in the Forest of Högtorp…, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Sweden: elk-shooting in the Forest of Hogtorp - from a sketch by our special artist, 1864. The future King Edward VII in Scandinavia

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Presentation to the Countess of Yarborough of an equestrian portrait of her Ladyship..., 1864

Presentation to the Countess of Yarborough of an equestrian portrait of her Ladyship..., 1864. Creator: Unknown
Presentation to the Countess of Yarborough of an equestrian portrait of her Ladyship by the gentlemen of the Brocklesby Hunt, 1864

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Christmas Entertainment to the Inmates of the Greenwich Union-House, 1864. Creator: Unknown

Christmas Entertainment to the Inmates of the Greenwich Union-House, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Christmas Entertainment to the Inmates of the Greenwich Union-House, 1864. 'Through the liberality of Mrs. Angerstein, wife of the member for Greenwich

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Festival at Hartford Mill, Oldham, given by Mr. Platt to 8000 of his workpeople, 1864

Festival at Hartford Mill, Oldham, given by Mr. Platt to 8000 of his workpeople, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Festival at Hartford Mill, Oldham, given by Mr. Platt to 8000 of his workpeople, 1864. 'In celebration of the attainment of his majority by Mr. Henry Platt, son of Mr

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Free opening of the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens on the anniversary of the late..., 1864

Free opening of the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens on the anniversary of the late..., 1864. Creator: Unknown
Free opening of the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens on the anniversary of the late Prince Consort's birthday, 1864

Background imageSocial Class Collection: St. Paul's Working Men's Church, Birkenhead, 1864. Creator: Unknown

St. Paul's Working Men's Church, Birkenhead, 1864. Creator: Unknown
St. Paul's Working Men's Church, Birkenhead, 1864. 'This church was opened on the 10th December by the Bishop of Chester, and contains on the ground floor upwards of 600 sittings

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Picnic at the Uspenskii Mine, 1890. Creator: Unknown

Picnic at the Uspenskii Mine, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Picnic at the Uspenskii Mine, 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Picnic at the Uspenskii Mine, 1890. Creator: Unknown

Picnic at the Uspenskii Mine, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Picnic at the Uspenskii Mine, 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Interior view of the book warehouse of the Society for Primary Education in Krasnoyarsk, 1890

Interior view of the book warehouse of the Society for Primary Education in Krasnoyarsk, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Interior view of the book warehouse of the Society for Primary Education in Krasnoyarsk. The first room., 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Group photo of Shchegolev brothers with their wives, 1860. Creator: Unknown

Group photo of Shchegolev brothers with their wives, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Group photo of Shchegolev brothers with their wives, 1860. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Background imageSocial Class Collection: On the hunt in the vicinity of Krasnoyarsk., 1810. Creator: Unknown

On the hunt in the vicinity of Krasnoyarsk., 1810. Creator: Unknown
On the hunt in the vicinity of Krasnoyarsk, 1810. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Peasants - chaldons of the city of Krasnoyarsk, 1880. Creator: Unknown

Peasants - chaldons of the city of Krasnoyarsk, 1880. Creator: Unknown
Peasants - chaldons of the city of Krasnoyarsk, 1880. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Background imageSocial Class Collection: A barrack for family workers in Krasnoyarsk, 1890. Creator: Unknown

A barrack for family workers in Krasnoyarsk, 1890. Creator: Unknown
A barrack for family workers in Krasnoyarsk, 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Paired photo portrait of Mamomnovs Mamakra Avdeevna and daughter Ekaterina Yakovlevna, 1890

Paired photo portrait of Mamomnovs Mamakra Avdeevna and daughter Ekaterina Yakovlevna, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Paired photo portrait of Mamomnovs Mamakra Avdeevna and daughter Ekaterina Yakovlevna, 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late

Background imageSocial Class Collection: The gates of a snow town near the village of Ladeyskoye, Krasnoyarsk District, 1800

The gates of a snow town near the village of Ladeyskoye, Krasnoyarsk District, 1800. Creator: Unknown
The gates of a snow town near the village of Ladeyskoye, Krasnoyarsk District, 1800. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Natalia Petrovna Bologovskaya - wife of the governor of Yenisei province, 1880. Creator: Unknown

Natalia Petrovna Bologovskaya - wife of the governor of Yenisei province, 1880. Creator: Unknown
Natalia Petrovna Bologovskaya - wife of the governor of Yenisei province, 1880. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Part of a drawing room in the house of Evdokia Petrovna Kuznetsova, 1890. Creator: Unknown

Part of a drawing room in the house of Evdokia Petrovna Kuznetsova, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Part of a drawing room in the house of Evdokia Petrovna Kuznetsova, 1890 This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Sending peasant settlers to the place of permanent residence, 1890. Creator: Unknown

Sending peasant settlers to the place of permanent residence, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Sending peasant settlers to the place of permanent residence, 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Members of the board of the Vladimir shelter, 1894. Creator: Akselrod

Members of the board of the Vladimir shelter, 1894. Creator: Akselrod
Members of the board of the Vladimir shelter, 1894. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Family P.N. Konovalov during a holiday at the dacha (in Tarakanovo), 1890. Creator: Unknown

Family P.N. Konovalov during a holiday at the dacha (in Tarakanovo), 1890. Creator: Unknown
Family P.N. Konovalov during a holiday at the dacha (in Tarakanovo), 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Photo portrait of the merchant of the 2nd guild Vasily Ivanovich Karnakov, 1890. Creator: Akselrod

Photo portrait of the merchant of the 2nd guild Vasily Ivanovich Karnakov, 1890. Creator: Akselrod
Photo portrait of the merchant of the 2nd guild Vasily Ivanovich Karnakov, 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Nakhalovka Sloboda in Krasnoyarsk, 1896. Creator: Unknown

Nakhalovka Sloboda in Krasnoyarsk, 1896. Creator: Unknown
Nakhalovka Sloboda in Krasnoyarsk, 1896. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Picnic in the village of V-Usinsky, 1890. Creator: Unknown

Picnic in the village of V-Usinsky, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Picnic in the village of V-Usinsky, 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Background imageSocial Class Collection: Settlers at their home, 1880. Creator: Unknown

Settlers at their home, 1880. Creator: Unknown
Settlers at their home, 1880. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period



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