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  • Men of opposing social classes in a game of boules; illustrating the faculty of weight and resistance in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • An estate worker who is sweeping up autumn leaves takes off his hat in deference to a little boy who is heir to the estate. Process print after G.H. Boughton, 1873.
  • Two working-class men wearing top hats and moustaches, imitating the fashions of the upper classes, rejoice in their new-found equality in fashion. Wood engraving after John Leech, 1854.
  • A mat-making couple. Gouache drawing.
  • Page 159: two images of women in their traditional costume. Watercolour drawing.
  • A hotel managed by noblemen. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • A Patanee couple. Gouache drawing.
  • A king holding court. Ink drawing.
  • A woman tells her friend how she pretended to be poor and got free accommodation at the Hospital Lariboisière for 40 days. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Jewelry maker. Gouache drawing.
  • A medicine vendor selling to a crowd at a fair. Process print after C. Pears, 1912.
  • A soldier and his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • People relaxing in a drawing-room after dinner. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • Eighty-four physiognomic caricatures of English eighteenth century types. Etching by I. Cruikshank after G.M. Woodward.
  • Life and labour of the people in London. Final volume, Notes on social influences and conclusion / by Charles Booth ; assisted by Jesse Argyle, Ernest Aves, Geo. E. Arkell, Arthur L. Baxter, George H. Duckworth.
  • A medicine vendor selling to a crowd at a fair. Process print after C. Pears, 1912.
  • A doctor and the wife of his patient talking at cross purposes. Reproduction of a drawing by H.M. Brock, 1921.
  • A very poor looking girl, sitting on a rock, is approached by a well-dressed girl who offers buns from the basket in her hand. Colour wood engraving after H. Tidey, 1867.
  • Baths, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Engraving by P.W. Tomkins.
  • Baths, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Engraving by P.W. Tomkins.
  • A wife tells her husband to add her charitable givings to his records of their outgoings. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Bangle maker and his wife. Watercolour drawing.
  • A country doctor enquiring how a farm worker has voted. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
  • A nobleman on horseback. Watercolour drawing.
  • A soldier complaining of pain in his abdomen to a corporal, the corporal retorts that he has a stomach - only officers have abdomens. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1912.
  • An old woman with a basket in her hand asks a young man for a job for her daughter while blowing smoke from a pipe into his face, much to his disgust. Coloured etching.
  • A man picks up the money spilling from a rich gentleman's pockets. Coloured etching after G. Piattoli (?), c. 1800.
  • Tunbridge Wells, Kent: the parade and six smaller sketches around the town. Lithograph by G. Barnard.
  • A popular art and antique auction. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • A man of high rank in the Congo is being carried in a litter by four other men. Engraving by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig.