Poverty Collection

A man walking through a backstreet of the Gorbals area of Glasgow
31st January 1948: A man walking through a backstreet in the run-down Gorbals area of Glasgow

View at the old town of Modica Italy

Hoxton Slums
Slum housing in Shaftesbury Street, Hoxton in the East End of London, 5th October 1946. Original publication: Picture Post - 4224 - All In A Hoxton Garden - pub

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

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

Prairie Ghost Town in Black and White
A ghost town on the plains. Dramatic landscape image in black and white. This image taken in the great plains in an abandoned town. Saskatchewan, Canada. Western faAzade on the old store

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!

Pennyfields
circa 1925: A street in the slum area of Pennyfields, Limehouse, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Chinatown
April 1911: A street in Limehouse, Londons Chinatown. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

A Days Outing
circa 1928: A line of seventy-five buses taking five-thousand poor children for a day out at Theydon Bois, Essex. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Russian Peasants
A group of Russian peasants visit town in pre-Revolutionary days

Peasant Woman Sweeping The Yard
(Original Caption) Antrim, Ireland- County Antrim. A peasant woman of Ballycastle sweeping the yard. Undated photograph

Poor Laborers Family Visited by Lady
(Original Caption) Poverty of the working class in France. Poor laborer's family visited by a rich lady and coachman to distribute alms. Woodcut ca. 1850, by Karl Cirardet

Husband and Wife Distraught Over Money
(Original Caption) Hard Times. Mortgaging the old homestead

Poor Family in Room of Tenement Apartment
New York, NY: Room in a tenement flat ca. 1910. Photograph by Riis

Children in Schoolroom in New York
(Original Caption) ca. 1886-New York: Schoolroom in the Lower East Side New York: View of Benches. Photo by Jacob Riis. BPA2# 1314

Poverty Stricken Family in New York's Lower East Side
Photographer Jacob August Riis spent time in the 1880s photographing poverty and poor living conditions in Manhattan's Lower East Side

Shelter for Immigrants in New York
(Original Caption) 1888-New York, NY: Shelter for immigrants in a Bayard Street tenement. Photo Taken by Jacob Riis in 1888. Riis included this photo in his book, "How the Other Half Lives."

Immigrant Family in New Quarters
(Original Caption) Immigrant family in new quarters. Undated photograph

Bread Line During Depression
(Original Caption) Unemployed men on bread line during the Depression. B/W photograph, undated

Men Gathered in Bandit's Roost
Men gather in an alley called "Bandit's Roost" in Manhattan's Little Italy

A Jewish Immigrant in New York
A Jewish immigrant living in a New York cellar prepares to eat a meal on the Sabbath

Cigar Maker at Work
New York, NY: Portrait of a Bohemian cigar maker at work. "Seventeen hours a day, seven days a week, at 13 cents an hour for three workers!" Photograph by Jacob Riis, circa 1890

Man in His Tenement Living Quarters
(Original Caption) Portrait of a junk man's living quarters in the cellar of a New York City tenement house. Photo by Jacob Riis, 1891

Hungry People In The Streets Of Russia
(Original Caption) Smolensk, Russia: The tragedy of Russia: Hungry children at Smolensk, where the slightest pretense of food brings forth smiles to those poor, starving bodies. Undated photograph

Freed Slaves at Almshouse
(Original Caption) A group of former slaves at a county Almshouse

Women Doing Laundry In A Tenement
(Original Caption) Poverty: Woman doing laundry in a tenement with a baby in a cradle and a child crying. Photograph ca. 1910

Children with Sign Dressed Poorly
(Original Caption) Bruce Trainor (Left) of Cincinnati, OH, and James Bresham, Los Angeles, CA

Armenian Orphans
Survivers of the Armenian genocide

Armenian Genocide
Members of the American relief attending a celebration at an Armenian orphanage

Armenian Orphans

Armenian Orphans
Miss Edith D. Cushman and Major Davis G. Arnold with orphans

Armenian Orphans
Orphans at fountain showing their relection in Turkey

Man Lying in Bed in Tenement House
A man lies in bed in his New York tenement house apartment

Women, Children Do Needlepoint
(Original Caption) Women and child doing needlework in tenement. Photograph by Lewis Hine ca. 1900

Man W/Violin Case Entering Loan Office
(Original Caption) Photograph of a man, wearing a coat and a hat, carrying a violin case as he enters a doorway labeled "Loan Office." Undated photograph

Man Searches Through Lg Outside Dump
(Original Caption) Undated-New York, New York- At these dump heaps many thousands of dollars are salvaged by a group of enterprising Italians

Poor Man Walking by Luxury Car
(Original Caption) Poverty-stricken man with pushcart. Undated photograph

The Distressed Poet by William Hogarth
Scene from the life of an impoverished poet

Ellis Island Immigrants Waiting for Ferry
European immigrants who have passed through the entry station at Ellis Island wait for the ferry that will transport them to New York City

Hungry Black Man At Open Food Stand
Open air coffee stand in Philadelphia. "Hungry." Woodcut by S. G. McCutcheon, ca. 1870

Clothes For The Needy Of New York
(Original Caption) Clothes for New York's needy. Photograph, ca. 1932. (Photo by AS400 DB/Bettmann Archive)

Children in Textile Mill
Children working in an American textile mill surrounded by spinning machines

Family Living in Squalid Tenement Building
A family living in a dilapidated New York tenement building sit together in their bedroom, ca. 1910

Woman Washing with Youngsters Nearby
(Original Caption) Poverty: Woman doing laundry in a tenement with a baby in a cradle and a child crying. Photograph ca. 1910

Men Standing in Bread Line
SULLIVAN DINNER: MEN ON BREAD LINE. EARLY C. 1914. INP PHOTOGRAPH

Crowd Waiting To Get Coal For Heat
(Original Caption) 12/31/1917-New York, NY: A scene in New York's ghetto showing hundreds struggling to get a few pounds of coal. Coal famine, 1917-1918 winter

Children on Back Porch
Women and children on a porch in a Cincinnati slum backed by railroad tracks

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

Miner'S Children In Pose For Picture
(Original Caption) 12/7/1920-Lick Creek, WV-View of African American children in a tent colony of miners

Coal Strike in West Virginia
Red Jacket, West Virginia. View of tent colony of striking miners

Portrait of Cuban Peasant Family
(Original Caption) 1/21/1921-Cuba-: A typical Cuban peasant family. Note the heavenly twins on the table naked after the custom of the country

Digging for Coal by Railroad
(Original Caption) Poverty and scarcity of coal for fuel is the only reason for this occupation

Some Ragged Looking Refugees W/Sailor
(Original Caption) 12/21/1922- Assisted by the American Blue Jackets, the British Tommies load the SS Andreas, a Greek refugee ship chartered by the Red Cross, in record breaking time -- 10

View of Citizens Waiting at Food Wagon During Troubled Times
(Original Caption) Salvation Army stand in Berlin, serving food to needy men and women during troubled days of 1923

Woman Lighting Fire with German Money
(Original Caption) 1923-Berlin, Germany- A German housewife is shown in the act of lighting the fire for the breakfast meal with several million German marks

Two Children On The Fire Escape Napping
(Original Caption) June 20, 1929- New York: Two children in New York City keep cool during the hot weather by sleeping. SEE NOTE

Men Eating Soup During Great Depression
(Original Caption) The Great Depression in the U.S.: Men eating bread and soup in a breadline. Undated photograph.BPA2# 1048

Milk Being Sold to Poor at 11 Cents Per Quart

Poor Boy in Doorway of Mill Worker's Shack
(Original Caption) Tennessee mill workers go out on strike...National Guardsmen were called out to guard the mills of the American Bemberg and Glanzstoff Corporation at Elizabethton, Tennessee

Man Selling Roadster After Stock Market Crash
Bankrupt investor Walter Thornton tries to sell his luxury roadster for $100 cash on the streets of New York City following the 1929 stock market crash

Unemployed Men in Bread Line
Unemployed men wait in long lines for bread and handouts during the Great Depression

Bread Line in Depression-Era New York
(Original Caption) Unemployed bread lines; despite a heavy rain, these poor unfortunates, jobless and moneyloos (?), wait in line at Grand and Christie Streets in NYC for nourishment being doled out

Handing Out Bread and Coffee
William I. Sirovich, Heywood Brown, and Reverend Raymond Brown hand out packages of food to the jobless outside St. Peter's Mission in New York City

Impoverished Family in Shack
Dyer Family in their shack in Monteagle, Tennessee. The husband will occasionally make $19.20 per month with part time W.P.A. work

Unemployed Men Receive Soup and Bread
Relief workers serve soup and bread to Cleveland's unemployed during the Great Depression

Men Waiting on Soup Line in Detroit
1930-Detroit, MI-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Handing out bread and soup to the hungry in Detroit. Photograph, 1930

Down And Out On Bread Line
(Original Caption) Filed 1/1930- New York, NY: "Down and Outs" and unemployed wait on a bread line for handouts at the Rescue Society, Doyers Street Mission in Chinatown district

Picking Cotton on the Mississippi Delta
(Original Caption) Picture shows people picking cotton on the Mississippi Delta

African Americans Cotton Pickers on Plantation
African American cotton pickers picking cotton near a little cabin which houses some of the workers

Jane Addams Holding Little Girl at Hull House
World-famous social worker Jane Addams appears with a little girl at the 40th anniversary of Hull House, an institution considered a paragon of settlement houses

Men Distributing Bread and Coffee to the Needy
(Original Caption) William I. Sirovich and Heywood Brown, shown above with the Reverend Raymond Norman, are dealing out bread and coffee to hungry and jobless at St

Apple Salesman In Depression
(Original Caption) 10/30/1930- New York, NY: Anthony Santelli, one armed World War I veteran who is one of the new apple merchants set up by Joseph Sicker

Woman Receiving Food Handout from Police
(Original Caption) 11/14/1930-New York, NY- Poverty hits the old ones too....Interspersed in the ranks of the city poor, who waited in long lines yesterday, were many of advanced age

Men Waiting for Food at Shelter
(Original Caption) With facilities to feed 15, 000 men three times a day and sleeping accommodations for 1, 500, the new municipal lodging house

People Waiting in a Bread Line
(Original Caption) 12/1930-Mexico City, Mexico: Photo shows a bread line

Police Handing Food Out
(Original Caption) New York: Police assist in distributing food from trucks to the needy men and women of New York

Hooverville in Croton Reservoir
(Original Caption) New York City: Depression shacks "Hoover Village" in the old Central Park reservoir. Undated photograph

Winding Breadline in Manhattan on Christmas
Hundreds of people line up for the Christmas dinner at the New York Municipal Lodging House. | Location: Manahttan, New York City, New York, USA

Needy Citizens for Breadline on the Streets

Police Feed Poor in Harlem
1932-New York, NY- ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Harlem unemployed stand in line for food provided by New York Police

Hunger Marchers at Capitol Building
(Original Caption) 1/6/1932-Washington, D.C.- Quietly and curiously, without any sign of disorder, over 12, 000 hunger marchers, brought from Pittsburgh, PA, Washington, D.C. by Father James R

Hunger Marchers at Capitol Building
(Original Caption) 1/6/1932-Washington, D.C.- Quietly and curiously, without any sign of disorder, over 12, 000 hunger marchers, brought from Pittsburgh, PA, Washington, D.C. by Father James R

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