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Gender and poverty in nineteenth-century Europe / Rachel G. Fuchs.
Fuchs, Rachel G., 1939-2016.Date: 2005- Pictures
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A man in ragged clothes pushing a woman sitting in a wheelbarrow. Etching with engraving by W.Y. Ottley after the Monogrammatist bxg.
b g, Monogrammist, active approximately 1470-1490.Date: [1828]Reference: 43780i- Books
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The farmer's letters to the people of England: Containing the sentiments of a practical husbandman, on various subjects of the utmost importance: particularly the exportation of corn. The balance of agriculture and manufactures. The present state of husbandry. The circumstances attending large and small farms. The present state of the poor. The proceedings of the Society for the encouragement of arts, &c. The importance of timber and planting. Emigrations to the colonies, &c. &c. &c. To which is added, Sylvæ: or, occasional tracts on husbandry and rural œconomics.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Pictures
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A miser and usurer holding a money-bag is accosted by a poor man on crutches. Woodcut by J. Amman, c. 1568.
Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.Date: [1568]Reference: 43778i- Pictures
Two poor country girls, collecting flowers or berries, stopping to drink spring-water from a jug. Engraving by J.C. Armytage after H. Campotosto.
Campotosto, Henry, -1910.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 673777i- Books
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The farmer's letters to the people of England: containing the sentiments of a practical husbandman, on various subjects of great Importance: Particularly The Exportation of Corn. The Balance of Agriculture and Manufactures. The present State of Husbandry. The Circumstances attending large and small Farms The present state of the Poor. The Prices of Provisions. The Proceedings of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. The Importance of Timber and Planting. Emigrations to the Colonies. The Means of promoting the Agriculture and Population of Great-Britain, &c. To which are added, Sylv?: or, occasional tracts on husbandry and rural oeconomics.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: M,DCC,LXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The farmer's letters to the people of England: containing the sentiments of a practical husbandman, on various subjects of great importance: particularly the exportation of corn. The balance of agriculture and manufactures. The present state of husbandry. The circumstances attending large and small farms. The present state of the poor. The price of provisions. The proceedings of the society for the encouragement of arts, &c. The importance of timber and planting. Emigrations to the colonies. The means of promoting the agriculture and population of Great Britain, &c., &c. To which are added, Sylvæ: or occasional tracts on husbandry and rural oeconomics.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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The farmer's letters to the people of England: containing the sentiments of a practical husbandman, on various subjects of great Importance: Particularly The Exportation of Corn. The Balance of Agriculture and Manufactures. The present State of Husbandry. The Circumstances attending large and small Farms. The present State of the Poor. The Prices of Provisions. The Proceedings of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. The Importance of Timber and Planting. Emigrations to the Colonies. The Means of promoting the Agriculture and Population of Great Britain, &c. &c. To which are added, SylvÆ: or, occasional tracts on husbandry and rural oconomics.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Rural improvements: or, essays on the most rational methods of improving estates; accomodated to the soil, climate, and circumstances of England: In which it is clearly demonstrated, that the Landed Estates of this Kingdom may with certainty, and at a very moderate Expence, be increased to double their present Value. The Method of doing which is clearly pointed out, and evinced from undeniable Principles, deduced from a Series of real Practice and Experience. Essay First; Shewing the Improvements that respect the Occupier. Essay Second; The Improvements that respect the Land-Owner. The whole interspersed with a Variety of interesting Reflections and Observations, on the Poor, Poor-Laws, high Prices of Provisions, Labour, decay of Foreign Trade, Population, Corn-Trade, Bounty on Exportation; with rational and proper Measures respecting the same. Also, Remarks On Messrs. Harte, Tull, Miller, Chateauvieux, Compleat English Farmer, Young, Peters, Weston, &c. By a land owner.
Wimpey, Joseph, 1739-1808.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
Making services work for poor people.
Date: [2003], ©2003- Pictures
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A bearded lame man walking with the aid of two crutches begging for alms with his hat. Engraving with etching.
Reference: 43850i- Pictures
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A farm worker has fallen among the corn owing to starvation, and has dropped his scythe and barrel; another worker is also about to faint. Engraving by Anthony Cardon after P.J. de Loutherbourg after himself.
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812.Date: Feby. 1 1803Reference: 30059i- Books
Rural hygiene / [Benjamin Ward Richardson].
Richardson, Benjamin Ward, 1828-1896Date: 1893- Books
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Colonial and camp sanitation.
Poore, George Vivian, 1843-1904.Date: 1903- Pictures
A woman breastfeeding her baby and looking after two small children in a rural setting. Engraving.
Reference: 17427i- Pictures
A girl sits by the dying embers of a fire on the floor in a Highland hut; a baby is asleep in the crib behind her. Mezzotint by Edward Burton after William Simson.
Simson, William, 1800-1847.Date: [1849]Reference: 36008i- Pictures
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A man with a wooden leg collecting brushwood in a wicker basket slung over his shoulder. Pen and wash drawing.
Reference: 44047i- Pictures
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Enoch and his family praying before taking a frugal meal outside a farm building while a woman gives alms to poor and lame people who approach the farm. Engraving by J. Sadeler after M. de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Date: 1500-1599Reference: 43777i- Books
The Queen's poor : life as they find it in town and country / by M. Loane.
Loane, M., -1922.Date: [1998], ©1998- Books
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A six months tour through the North of England. Containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several Counties of this Kingdom. Particularly, I. The Nature, Value, and Rental of the Soil. II. The Size of Farms, with Accounts of their Stock, Products, Population, and various Methods of Culture. III. The Use, Expence, and Profit of several Sorts of Manure. IV. The Breed of Cattle, and the respective Profits attending them. V. The State of the Waste Lands which might and ought to be cultivated. VI. The Condition and Number of the Poor, with their Rates, Earnings, &c. Vii. The Prices of Labour and Provisions, and the Proportion between them. Viii. The Register of many curious and useful Experiments in Agriculture, and general Practices in rural Oeconomics communicated by several of the Nobility, Gentry, &c. &c. Interspersed With Descriptions of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; and other remarkable Objects: Illustrated with Copper Plates of such Implements of Husbandry, as deserve to be generally known; and Views of some picturesque Scenes, which occurred in the Course of the Journey. In four volumes. ...
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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A six months tour through the North of England. Containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several counties of this kingdom. Particularly, I. The nature, value, and rental of the soil. II. The size of farms, with accounts of their stock, products, population, and various methods of culture. III. The use, expence, and profit of several sorts of manure. IV. The breed of cattle, and the respective profits attending them. V. The state of the waste lands which might and ought to be cultivated. VI. The condition and number of the poor, with their rates, earnings, &c. VII. The prices of labour and provisions, and the proportion between them. VIII. The register of many curious and useful experiments in agriculture, and general practices in rural occonomics, communicated by several of the nobility, gentry, &c. &c. Interspersed with descriptions of the seats of the nobility and gentry; and other remarkable objects: illustrated with copper plates of such implements of husbandry, as deserve to be generally known; and views of some picturesque scenes, which occurred in the course of the journey. In four volumes.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Film
The population problem : Brazil : the gathering millions.
Date: 1967- Books
Gender and mental diseases in the early modern society : the Hessian hospitals / Christina Vanja.
Vanja, Christina, 1952-- Books
The etchings and drypoints of Edmund Blampied, R.E. / by Henry H.M. Lyle.
Date: 1931- Pictures
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A rural medical practitioner examining a urine specimen, a concerned mother with two children sitting near him. Line engraving by A. Fleischmann, 1839, after J.F.C. Kreul (?).
Kreul, Johann Friedrich Carl, 1804-1867.Date: 1839Reference: 21854i