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  • An old beggar with a wooden leg moves with the aid of two crutches and holds his hat in his left hand. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • A gentleman giving alms to two lame beggars by leaning over an inscribed banner. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, 1632.
  • Eastern-Dispensary for Relief of the Poor : Great Alie Street, 179 : having been received as a patient under the care of.
  • A man and woman carrying barrels of water on their heads: Conference on water sanitation for the urban poor in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, 2006.
  • A woman carrying a basket of eggs looks at a poor old man who is working as a chiffonnier and picking up rubbish with a stick: she exclaims that they were once lovers. Lithograph by H. Bellangé, 1826.
  • An itinerant salesman in ragged clothes selling toasting forks, files, skewers and other implements. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • Eastern-Dispensary for Relief of the Poor : Great Alie Street, 179 : having been received as a patient under the care of.
  • A woman begging with three children, one of them a naked infant, under the arch of a town-wall. Lithograph.