Poverty Collection (page 3)

Washing Day
1889: Children sitting under a washing line hanging acoss a courtyard in a slum area of London. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

New York Slum
circa 1890: A family in a tenement slum in New York. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Raindrops on a car window

Shack, corrugated iron hut at the Sangker River, near Battambang, Battambang Province, Cambodia

Cityscape, temple city of Srirangam, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India

Slums, favelas, on mountain slopes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Favela riverside slum in Amazonia, Tefe, department of Amazonas, Brazil

Katutura, the slum district of Windhoek, Namibia

Iron gate with barbed wire, Windhoek, Namibia

Flower Girls
circa 1900: London Flower girls selling flowers in the street. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Country Cottage
1857: Knifegrinders at work outside a ramshackle English cottage. William Grundys English Views (Photo by William Grundy/London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Basic Bedroom
circa 1865: A woman adjusting her dress whilst standing in a sparse room in a poor state of repair. London Stereoscopic Company Comic Series - 547 (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Lifestyle Contrast
circa 1865: A man being served dinner within the walls of his house whilst a poor man sits alone outside. London Stereoscopic Company Comic Series - 379

Irkutsk railway station

Irkutsk railway station, Siberia, Russia

Mother bathing daughter (12-18 months) in basin, (B&W)

Pawnbrokers signs outside shop, (B&W), low angle view

Street Traders
December 1907: Street hawkers selling Christmas gifts on Ludgate Hill, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hawker
November 1907: A street hawker with Christmas toys on Ludgate Hill, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Whitgift Almshouses
19th September 1919: The Whitgift Almshouses at the corner of Drummond Road and George Street in Croydon and under threat of demolition from the Croydon Corporations road-widening schemes

Whitgift Almshouses
19th September 1919: The Whitgift Almshouses at the corner of Drummond Road and George Street in Croydon and under threat of demolition from the Croydon Corporations road-widening schemes

Would-Be Motorists
September 1908: Boys with sticks pushing wheels down a street. One boy is barefooted. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Sale Street
December 1923: Sale Street in Londons Bethnal Green. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Queuing Miners
circa 1906: Chinese miners queuing for food rations at their colliery. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Window Shoppers
Poor London slum children, with no shoes, look at items for sale in a shop. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Belfast Children
Children playing in a Belfast street after the National Union of Dockers strike, organised by James Larkin. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Soup Queue
September 1906: Slum dwellers in Bury, Lancashire carrying jugs as they wait to collect free soup. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Slum Life
1907: Women pushing a pram past a bakery window in Little Italy, a slum area of London in the borough of Holborn. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Little Italy
1907: A view of Little Italy, the area in Londons East End where the Italian colony was located. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Little Italy
1907: A view of Summers Street in Little Italy, where the Italian colony was located in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Back Yards
1923: The exterior of houses in a slum area in Bethnal Green, east London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Council Slum
circa 1977: Graffiti painted onto a wall in front of a council housing block. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Run Down Flats
14th March 1975: An occupied ground floor flat in an otherwise deserted Matilda House, in St Katherine s, Stepney, East London. (Photo by Angela Deane-Drummond/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Church Haven
April 1952: An elderly man enters St Georges crypt in Leeds where he will be warm, can get a meal and maybe sleep the night. The cross above the door is illuminated all through the night

Ripped Trousers
29th May 1954: Ripped trousers and shorts in a poor area of Bristol. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7170 - The Best and Worst of British Cities 5: Bristol, Straight Faced City - pub

Curious Boys
A group of boys peering under a gate, East Side, Buffalo, New York, circa 1925. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Doomed Street
9th March 1946: A solitary figure walks down a deserted street in Londons East End, which London County Council plans to redevelop as part of its post-war rebuilding programme

Back Alley
5th October 1955: Back to back slums in Birmingham. (Photo by Raymond Kleboe/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Evicted Family
A mother and children with their belongings after being evicted from their house near Errismore in the west of Ireland, circa 1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Female Refugee Prepares Meal
A female refugee from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and citywide fires kneels on the ground and prepares a meal over a makeshift stove as two young children sit by at the United States Army run

New Street
Children sitting on the pavement in New Street, Vauxhall, circa 1860. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Field Lane Refuge
Cocoa is distributed to men at the Field Lane Refuge in London after a ragged church service, circa 1900. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Bath House
Men washing at a Bath House in London, watched by wardens of the institution. Engraving by Gustav Dore circa 1870. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Dawn To Sunset
From Dawn to Sunset, a grim view of the life of a poor man and his family in Victorian Scotland, circa 1861. A painting by Thomas Faed. (Photo by Rischgitz/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Old West Homestead Portrait
A pioneer family poses for a portrait outside their mud-brick habitat on the Great Plains in the Dakota Territory, late 20th Century. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Russian Peasants
circa 1850: A Russian farm labourer returns home for a tea break with his family. Original Artwork: Engraved by Adolphe Yvon (1817 - 1893) (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Wading Through Water
circa 1850: A young boy rolling up his trousers as he wades through water. Original Artwork: Engraving by Meason from London Labour and London Poor by Henry Mayhew

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