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Slums

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  • Harrow alley, Houndsditch
  • Water tank in St. Giles in the Fields, London. Wood engraving, 1858.
  • A horse-drawn carriage has arrived at a church in a poor part of a town: a newly wed couple walk down the steps towards it as the coachman holds the door open and spectators stand by. Lithograph by C. Motte after V. Adam.
  • Euro campaign to improve sanitation in the slums of Kibera. Colour lithograph by AMREF, 2002.
  • Euro campaign to improve sanitation in the slums of Kibera. Colour lithograph by AMREF, 2002.
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    Harrow alley, Houndsditch

    Gustave Dore
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    Fisher's Alley (Fisher Lane), near the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with many Pensioners and other people walking. Wood engraving by R. Branston after C. Stanfield.

    Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867. | Date: 1840-1849 | Reference: 29822i
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    A couple sit in a slum dwelling playing a card game; the man is drinking from a tankard and washing is hanging from a line stretched across the room. Wood engraving by E. Landells after H.K. Browne.

    Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882. | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 33355i
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    Euro campaign to improve sanitation in the slums of Kibera. Colour lithograph by AMREF, 2002.

    | Date: [2002] | Reference: 755711i
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    The former Monmouth Street in London: women and children playing and men sitting and standing while smoking pipes, with items for sale hanging outside shops. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: [1839] | Reference: 29762i
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