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Beggar Collection

Background imageBeggar Collection: Victorian London boys begging and sweeping street, 1870

Victorian London boys begging and sweeping street, 1870
Vintage engraving of Victorian London boys begging and sweeping street. Mothers Last Words, Mrs Sewell, c.1870

Background imageBeggar Collection: Victorian London orphan boy begging on the street, 1870

Victorian London orphan boy begging on the street, 1870
Vintage engraving of Victorian London orphan boy begging on the street, 1870. Mothers Last Words, Mrs Sewell

Background imageBeggar Collection: Bleak House

Bleak House
Vintage engraving from the works of Charles Dickens. From Bleak House. I m Fly, says Jo. But Fen larksm you know. Stow hooking it!

Background imageBeggar Collection: Blind Beggar by Jacob Riis

Blind Beggar by Jacob Riis
A blind man stands alone on a street corner, offering pencils for sale in New York City

Background imageBeggar Collection: Maud McBride Distributing Milk

Maud McBride Distributing Milk
(Original Caption) 6/7/1920-Dublin, Ireland- Mme. Maud Gonne McBride (1865-1953) distributing goats milk to poor children in Dublin

Background imageBeggar Collection: Final Scene in Die Dreigoschenoper

Final Scene in Die Dreigoschenoper
(Original Caption) 1928- Final scene from premier of Kurt Weill's "Three Penny Opera" in 1928. Harold Paulsen as "Mack the Knife" (on gallows)

Background imageBeggar Collection: Officer Surrounded By Destitutes

Officer Surrounded By Destitutes
(Original Caption) 3/27/48-China: A Salvation Army officer is surrounded by destitutes eager to get a ticket entitling them two loaves of bread

Background imageBeggar Collection: Print of a Clergyman Stealing from the Rich to Give to the Poor

Print of a Clergyman Stealing from the Rich to Give to the Poor
(Original Caption) The three orders of France. Clergy stealing from the nobility and handing it to the poor

Background imageBeggar Collection: Political Cartoon With Grant As Begger

Political Cartoon With Grant As Begger
(Original Caption) Political Cartoon showing Grant as a greedy begger. "OUR PERENNIAL PAUPER." "What! Begging again?"

Background imageBeggar Collection: Illustration of Dress of the Commonalty in 1630

Illustration of Dress of the Commonalty in 1630
(Original Caption) Dress of the commonalty, time of Charles I, A.D. 1630. Color slide

Background imageBeggar Collection: Illustration of a Medieval Market Place

Illustration of a Medieval Market Place
An engraving of a 13th century market scene, with merchants offering their wares and a mystery being performed in the background

Background imageBeggar Collection: Political Cartoon of Queen Victoria Panhandling

Political Cartoon of Queen Victoria Panhandling
Political cartoon by Frederick Opper from Puck magazine showing Queen Victoria and her family panhandling from John Bull on the steps of Buckingham Palace

Background imageBeggar Collection: Children Huddled Against A Wall

Children Huddled Against A Wall
(Original Caption) 1/10/1949-China: The most pitiful of all the innocent pawns in the tragic civil war are the infants who wander about the streets aimlessly

Background imageBeggar Collection: Frank Costello Giving Money To Panhandle

Frank Costello Giving Money To Panhandle
(Original Caption) 1950-Frank Costello giving money to a poor panhandler

Background imageBeggar Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA
May Day, c.1811-12 (oil on canvas) (Photo by Art Images via Getty Images)

Background imageBeggar Collection: Blind Bartimeus

Blind Bartimeus
Vintage engraving of Blind Bartimeus. Each of the three synoptic gospels tells of Jesus healing the blind near Jericho, as he passed through that town, shortly before his passion

Background imageBeggar Collection: The Fool makes money when the wise man begs

The Fool makes money when the wise man begs
Vintage engraving of a victorian satirical cartoon, 19th Century. The Satires of Cynicus. The Fool makes money when the wise man begs; Just so - It was a goose that laid the golden eggs

Background imageBeggar Collection: Victorian satirical cartoon on Religion and the poor

Victorian satirical cartoon on Religion and the poor
Vintage engraving of a victorian satirical cartoon, 19th Century. The Satires of Cynicus. My eyes and thoughts to Heaven go, I ne er see common things below

Background imageBeggar Collection: Beggar Girls

Beggar Girls
1872: Two young beggar girls at Quimperle in Brittany. Original Artwork: Painting by Emile Auguste Hublin (Photo by Edward Gooch/Edward Gooch/Getty Images)

Background imageBeggar Collection: The Crawlers

The Crawlers
A beggar paid to look after a baby sitting at the side of a street, circa 1877. From Street Life in London by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith - pub. 1877 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBeggar Collection: Londons Covent Garden

Londons Covent Garden
Rich and poor, young and old, man and woman, come to shop and sell at Londons Covent Garden Market in this engraving after Hogarth from 1720. (Image by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBeggar Collection: Antique illustration of japanese scene

Antique illustration of japanese scene

Background imageBeggar Collection: Dickenss Dombey and Son - advice from plain old Joe

Dickenss Dombey and Son - advice from plain old Joe
Vintage engraving of a scene from Charles Dickens Dombey and Son. Take advice from plain old Joe, and never educate that sort of people, Sir. Returned the Major

Background imageBeggar Collection: Begging Venetians by luigi mion

Begging Venetians by luigi mion
Antique illustration of a Begging Venetians by luigi mion

Background imageBeggar Collection: A Little Street Sweeper

A Little Street Sweeper
Illustration of a little street sweeper begging circa 1860. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)


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