P O V E R T Y

Unable to pay their debts,  a family is sent to an 1841 poorhouse in England

   

"enforcing discipline"  on family members

   

"one of the poor men"

   

1) "Daily Diet:  6 ounces of bread with 3 pints of oatmeal/potato gruel"   2)  "The Master"

   

"The poor man's convoy",   human bodies from the poor house were sent to medical students

for dissection

        

P O V E R T Y

        

an 1844 article about Glasgow tenements describes foul air and fluids

        

P O V E R T Y

        

"Excursion In The Paris Sewers"   'Slumming' was the 1800s wealthy activity

of visiting impoverished or unusual areas out of curiosity or for amusement

        

P O V E R T Y

        

tourism in the 1870 Paris sewers       see full size

        

P O V E R T Y

        

1861 London 'mud-larks' ...  in summer and winter children and adults crawled through low-tide mud looking for small pieces of coal,  wood, or  trash

        

P O V E R T Y

        

"The House of Commons"   an 1861 cartoon about social class

        

P O V E R T Y

        

"Magical Patching-Plate"    an 1880 repair kit for frying pans 
see full size

        

1886 boys       see full size
    

P O V E R T Y

               

1890,  the least expensive overnight beds
    

P O V E R T Y

              

some 1800s New York tenement buildings had no waste drainage

    

P O V E R T Y

              

"What a Search of the Lodgers brought forth"

      

P O V E R T Y

        

1800s New York

      

P O V E R T Y

              

1800s New York tenement building designs

      

P O V E R T Y

              

"Dens of Death"     1902

      

P O V E R T Y

             

"Often with a very fair show to the outsider the block becomes a sort of pandemonium."
a 1904 article about London tenements describes violence, dirt, noise, quarrels, and drunkenness

        

P O V E R T Y

        

a photograph of a 1909 USA tenement showing an improvised Christmas tree

        

P O V E R T Y

        

a 1912 Lewis Hine photograph       see full size

        

P O V E R T Y

        

from 1924 Brazil childrens book
      

P O V E R T Y

        

"For Heaven's sake Ma!  Here's something aesthetic!"   a 1929 Canadian cartoon

        

P O V E R T Y

        

Mabel Dwight art

        

P O V E R T Y

        

somewhere in 1930s USA       see full size

        

P O V E R T Y

        

a Charles Addams cartoon    "Snow 5 cents"

        

P O V E R T Y

        

a Daniel Teoli Jr. photograph,  1972       see full size